in Canada, when the state won't prosecute criminality,
THEN individuals can hire lawyers to be the prosecutors.
Some criminals have the ( unofficial, of course ) protection of the authorities.
Unless some independent(s) pay lawyers ( who usually work as defense lawyers ) to be the prosecutors, .. well .. then "justice" can rot, is Canada's actual position.
I found out that if the authorities won't prosecute criminality, & you haven't the resources to hire lawyers to prosecute, then .. the criminality is actually protected by establishment.
( this kind of establishment-centric "establishment itself is the LAW" religion is visible in all political-systems, btw, it isn't created by our system being Canadian, or generally centerist or moneyarchist .. Isaiah railed against this a couple millenia ago, in the Abrahamic-religions bible, & Arjuna, in the Bhagavad Gita had to pit his life against his own family.
Rot/decay is normal.
The impersonality & correct-systems & objectivity-oriented-continuous-corrections required to counter this fundamental animal-instinct are not in-place, anywhere.
Nobody's got the spine to enforce that integrity displace political-muscle-dominion.
So, it'll continue ruling our .. fate.
It may end up being our species' epitaph, late this century.