It's Friday, March 4, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis

of news and events from a Christian worldview.

You recall the opening words to the long-running television drama, law, and order.

The narrator stated, quote, in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate

yet equally important groups, the police who investigate crime and the district

attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."

Now the very title of that dramatic series indicates that law enforcement has at least

two parts in American society.

And by the way, there are deep roots as you consider this going back to the English common law and to even previous antecedents in history, including classical culture, the very early ideas of institutional justice, meaning that there

needed to be in the modern age a separation of those who have the power to arrest and the power

to prosecute.

It's just another level of constitutional protection

for those who may be accused of crimes. It requires a far more comprehensive

series of investigations and arrests and prosecutions in order for the criminal justice

system to move forward. This is considered a great advance in Western legal

tradition. But you'll recall that this does underline that there are two parts, law and order.

And as you're thinking about the police, you also have to face the district attorneys who have the power and the responsibility to prosecute offenders.

But you'll notice that there has been a change, or at least perhaps you should know that there

has been a change in the mentality of many prosecutors in the United States,

and particularly many district attorneys.

Now, even as we are speaking, there are at least two

major district attorneys of major metropolitan areas in the United States who are facing

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