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sadris | 6 years ago

It must be zero? What if that resulted in 50% of murderers getting away?

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ericns|6 years ago

What happened to "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." As expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s.

Seems you're willing to punish an innocent man and a guilty man just to make sure a committed crime is followed up with a conviction.

Why have such a low bar in 2019?

Jill_the_Pill|6 years ago

Innocent people are killed by the same murderers in both scenarios. In yours, they are also sometimes killed or imprisoned by the state and are therefore at more total risk.

UncleEntity|6 years ago

Then the justice system is relying on faulty technology.

sodosopa|6 years ago

The justice system relies on human memory all the time. That’s the most unreliable thing we currently use.