progress sometimes meaning going backwards : Coroner's Juries & Grand Juries

If I were premier of Nova Scotia, I would replace SIRT and all other new fangled signs of progress in ‘policing the police’ by going back : back to Coroner’s Juries and Grand Juries.

Both are part of the Common Law system that English Canada shares with the UK , the USA and other countries.

They remain viable in some countries using the Common Law but are dead in others.

Both are awkward to our expert professional employees in the justice system because they invite the boss - that’s you and I the taxpayer- into the inter bowels of law and order.

There we tend to ask awkward questions that these expert - on both sides of the bar - defence and crown - would rather not see raised.

This has all caused me to come to reject the title - but not the thesis - of Edgar Z Freidenberg’s famous academic study “Deference to Authority”.

I now would prefer if it were entitled “Taxpaying bosses’ deference to their public employees” ....