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How about creating serious penalties for prosecutors who use falsified evidence, regardless of how it was obtained or their knowledge thereof. Our society, for
by joesmo 11y ago
How about creating serious penalties for prosecutors who use falsified evidence, regardless of how it was obtained or their knowledge thereof. Our society, for whatever unfathomable reasons, places special trust in prosecutors (and police), trust that is placed without cause, reason, or consequence for it to be broken. Thus, we can expect much steeper penalties when things go wrong. If prosecutors faced the threat of jail for messing up cases, they'd be more careful. How about a day in jail for every day that is mistakenly assigned to an innocent person?
The argument that they need immunity is total bullshit and in no way reflects their actual job. In fact, removing immunity is the only way to make prosecutors accountable. If they are not 100% sure of their conviction, then they shouldn't be convicting. Really simple logic. If you can't do your job within the law, you're not doing your job, you're just a criminal (as most prosecutors are morally). Same for police. These two groups of public servants should be held to higher standards than the rest. For even minor offenses, there should be long jail times. It goes without saying that when offenses by prosecutors or law enforcement are investigated, special outside prosecutors and investigators are necessary.
Truth is, the solution is simple but it will never be implemented because no one in the US law enforcement/justice system cares about justice. The buck no longer stops anywhere. We have given these people such power that they are essentially all-powerful. It is beyond comprehension why our society would trust the scumbags who get jobs as prosecutors and police officers, usually the stupidest, meanest, most horrible people you can imagine that just can't find work anywhere else and tend to have superiority complexes. These are the people we trust with life and death and then we wonder why thousands of innocent people are locked up or why our system is so fucking racist?
In America, solutions are simple, well defined, and actionable. Too bad no one who can act on them does. I think that is likely a huge reason for the decline of our society. The solutions exists and are obvious to anyone with a middle school education, yet we can't seem to enact any of them. Is it any wonder that the people in charge of justice don't care (and admit to not caring) about justice itself and who gets wrongfully convicted? Actually no. The nature of the power given to them almost dictates that they will abuse it. The sad part is that the people accept such an unjust situation and are satisfied with reciting cliched mantras like "the land of the free" all the while being enslaved by an incredibly unjust system.
Then again, most people affected by injustice in the US are either not white or poor. For all intents and purposes, from the point of the US justice system, they might as well not be American citizens. That's how they're treated anyway.
- robotresearcher 11y ago> How about a day in jail for every day that is mistakenly assigned to an innocent person? You'd never find anyone to be a prosecutor ever again.
- joesmo 11y agoI'm willing to compromise a bit on the time, but the point is they need to face real consequences for their actions or they will continue to be irresponsible with the lives of others.
- robotresearcher 11y agoFalsifying evidence is a crime already. Negligence is professional misconduct and a firing offence. Mistakes in good faith will happen from time to time. There certainly should be oversight to catch them ASAP, and incompetents should be fired.