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What I cannot fathom is that police officers are universally judged for decisions they have to take in split seconds, yet judges, attorneys (and ultimately the

• hackuser 11y ago
  Not only do I think there is a lack of accountability for negligent or mistaken judges, etc., but I've seen no concern for accuracy on their part. For example, if you were designing a system that made determinations about reality, wouldn't you study its accuracy, including false-positive and false-negative rates? If I was just an individual judge or DA, I'd like to think I'd implment it. Such quality control should be the norm but I've never seen it outside of academic studies. A couple of more tangential points: > police officers are universally judged for decisions they have to take in split seconds I think the objection that many people (certainly not all) have is that police escape judgment; they act with impunity. Recently there's been media coverage of some incidents, but that is the exception. > judges, attorneys (and ultimately the governor) do not have any repercussions at all The state, on whose behalf those people are acting, does have repercussions in the form of large payments due to civil lawsuits. I do think that there is not enough accountability for ne
• charonn0 11y ago
  The difference is that in court the defendant has an opportunity to put up a fight. If they mount a similarly vigorous defense against a police officer then they're liable to get shot/have additional charges leveled.