Justice

I interviewed a state prosecutor this morning for a freelance story I'm working on. He couldn't stop raving about the U.S. justice system.
"Even if someone is sentenced to death and they are innocent," he said, "at least he and the public believe the penalty was reached legally. Even now that DNA tests are finding innocents on death row, American people continue to trust your system. It's not about the individual, it's about the system."
A strong law and order man, Oscar Vaca Coria feels impotent in his country, where where mass protests have driven two presidents from office in as many years and where village lynchings often remain uninvestigated. Unlike many of his countrymen though, Coria is not nostalgic for the brutal dictatorships of the 1980s that kept everything nice and tidy.
"We can't have police and military everywhere," he said.
He offered no other solutions.