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As a prosecutor in CA for over 19 years, I can tell you that the Nifongs of the world are the extreme exception, not the rule. Almost all of us work long hours under government office conditions for sub-standard pay not because we are power hungry or want to frame someone, but because we really care about the victims of crime and finding some sense of justice in the resolution of cases. Some of us are more 'fair' than others, certainly, but I have NEVER come across a case of another DA hiding evidence. There was a DA I knew who I felt contrived a case, however. I informed management; I don't know what they did. But that was one case, one in thousands upon thousands of cases. Is that one too many? Of course. But it is a man-made system; it will not be perfect. And believe me, it is way more biased in favor of letting the guilty go free than in convicting the innocent, which is as it should be. In fact, my very first training session with new deputies is to hand out Supreme Court cases on the obligation of prosecutors to be even-handed and just, thereby promoting the type of society we would all want to live in. There is a Duke cap sitting in my office to remind my trainees of how NOT to do things. You don't realize that the DA is your first line of defense against over-reaching police. We are the ones who bounce cases based on bad stops or insufficient evidence. I, myself, have been wrongfully arrested and was told by some piece of brass in LA that 'constitutional rights are something only lawyers argue about in court.' That was before I became a DA and I have never forgotten the experience. By slamming all prosecutors, you just come off like someone who wants criminals to get away with criminal acts, many of which are horrible and violent. You have no sense of proportion and thus no sense of justice. You would make a lousy DA.