Investigate CCSD!

Originally posted in a LVRJ forum

Those who call for a CCSD investigation must first answer "By whom?" The government is not in the business of exposing itself, though there is another way.

Regularly operating CITIZEN grand juries -- not empaneled or controlled by political hack DAs and AGs -- used to be the norm. Private citizens could take their complaints DIRECTLY to it. It could investigate, supoena, call witnesses, issue indictments and all the rest. No politically controlled middlemen could get in their way. That's right.

Another approach (also strangled by the government) is incorporated in Article 1 §8.1.

No person shall be tried for .. [an] infamous crime .. except on presentment or indictment [by a grand jury, DA, AG] ...

Normally the DA calls a grand jury and makes his case. It votes up/down. Proceedings sealed. However some DA/AG empaneled grand juries have more latitude, wherein they can venture far BEYOND the scope of where the politically controlled prosecutor wants to keep them. When it completes its probe it issues a PRESENTMENT, which is a public record of their findings (DA/AG can't bury it) which might include all sorts of indictments not imagined by the DA/AG who empaneled them. Maybe even one calling for an indictment of the DA/AG himself! This was the traditional way for the public to fight government corruption.

Here's a tip. Only vote for a AG/DA who you can count on to support citizen grand juries. Good luck. They're all hacks and NRS has probably outlawed it.