You seriously think the PSNI would frame Gerry Adams? Are you really that detached from the political reality of NI today? I'm frankly amazed they even had the guts to bring him in for questioning.
As to murderers walking free, that was a large part of the peace process. Sadly, the politicians involved have taken the view that a Republican murderer and a Unionist murderer both walking free cancels out, rather than adding up to two murderers walking.
Which was, probably, the right decision, because it's brought about a tentative peace, and probably the only way to persuade men like Adams and McGuinness* to stop having people murdered was to let them into government.
*Note that I'm not naming any Unionists here. That's not because I think that the (large number of) Unionist murders were any less contemptible, but because as far as I can tell the Unionists tend to have had slightly more separation between the terrorists and their political defenders, whereas Sinn Fein and the IRA never made more than a token pretense of having separate leadership. Ian Paisley certainly encouraged and defended murders, but I suspect he never actually took part in ordering, planning or carrying out any, whereas McGuinness (a former IRA "quartermaster"
certainly and Adams almost certainly did.
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