> there is a corresponding civil action to make the injured party whole You haven't been in many court cases or you wouldn't be saying this. The vast majority

> there is a corresponding civil action to make the injured party whole You haven't been in many court cases or you wouldn't be saying this. The vast majority of crimes is committed by people who won't ever pay restitution. Because they can't, or because they simply won't (they'd rather do jail time). So if someone commits a crime against you, your car, your house, you best assume it's going to be you yourself or your insurance carrying the cost. > when the victim is found innocent, they should be immediately compensated for any and all damages resulting from arrest, imprisonment, and trial Thus giving everyone, including judges, a financial incentive to never find people not guilty. (It's already the case that "guilty party pays legal costs" principle sometimes results in the judge finding whoever's got the most expensive lawyer guilty and assigning 1$ restitution to avoid having the poor person pay legal costs. This would be 1000x worse). If you do this, everyone will be immediately convicted for "resisting arrest" or some such.