Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2012
In theory, CCP members who commit crimes will be turned over to the procuracy or police and the courts for criminal prosecution after initially being punished internally by the party’s own Commissions for Discipline Inspection. In practice, this happens in only a small minority of cases, and Party officials have the final say over the courts’ dispositions of those cases—a stark illustration of the Party’s influence over the criminal justice system.