Prosecutorial charging practices implicitly endorse biased police conduct

Evidence

Yet, prosecutorial power does not begin with a filing decision and end with the sentence. Prosecutorial decisions to file specific types of cases, and how to charge them, have direct implications for police conduct. If prosecutors accept nearly all cases brought to them by the police, and if they file cases as initiated by the police without reducing charge severity, they endorse police arrest and evidence gathering behavior, no matter how flawed and biased it may be (Kutateladze & Lawson, 2015). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 548

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 548