"Grand juries aren’t so benign. True, in Law & Order, and in real life, they help bring indictments against bad guys. But they can also be used to push a political agenda. They can intimidate, harass, and imprison political activists. They’ve been used against suspected communists, against antiwar activists , against Black Panthers, against independent journalists like Josh Wolf, and they’ve been used frequently against the environmental and animal rights movements (recently in the case of Jeff Hogg, and activists in California)."