I just had the opportunity to listen to the July 3rd podcast. The discussion with Rick Snyder from the FOP should be running in a loop on every media outlet, right after they broadcast the latest criminal atrocity in Indianapolis.
"It is also probably time to separate Prosecutors from the Judicial circuits and place one in each County as an elected official responsible to the County and whatever circuit they reside in.
No, I thought that too, but discovered a State Court opinion which stated Prosecutors are State employees allocated to each Indiana Court Circuit. My request is to have more, and to tie each Prosecutor to a County. (Note the opinion did state that the County's responsibility was to provide budget and resources for the Prosecutor, so in my view the request also aligns budgetary, responsibility and accountability appropriately.)
Read the Indiana State attorney general's opinion I linked to above. No they are elected officials, but they are not officials of the county but rather of the state. Maybe I misunderstood what the attorney general wrote, but my point is to get all elements of law enforcement under local control. The way I understand the attorney generals opinion, prosecuting attorneys are not linked to the counties but rather the judiciary's circuit court structure. In some cases of course that may mean that there's a single prosecutor for a single County, in other cases that would not necessarily be true.
He was talking about subbing for Jason Hammer on Friday and they did a "ask the gun lawyer" segment. You might've dropped in then.
