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I'm not sure what the original commenter meant, but some of us (a minority I'm sure) believe that no person deserves arrest, prosecution and jail in the forms t
by songshu 11y ago
I'm not sure what the original commenter meant, but some of us (a minority I'm sure) believe that no person deserves arrest, prosecution and jail in the forms they exist today even if that person is guilty of a crime. Things can go "smoothly" but still result in people being subjected to intimidation, cruelty and violence.
- andrepd 11y agoBy smoothly I mean not "nice and quiet" even if unjust, I meant lawfully and justly. I'm sad as everyone should when intimidation, cruelty and violence happen under law enforcement and/or the judicial system. Yet I can still recognised that this is not always the case. And that the silent majority of cases happen with no incident, but we don't hear of those. We do hear about the scandals, though.
- aljones 11y agoIt is very effective at locking up a huge number of people.
- id 11y agoThere are literally thousands of cases that: .) no one ever hears about .) are never reported by the media .) aren't "scandals" (to me they are) .) aren't just, as I (and probably others) see it I am talking about petty crimes that shouldn't even end up in court (Aaron is a good example), drug offences, more serious crimes with way too harsh sentences, juvenile offenders tried as adults, mental illness treated as a crime, things like the felony murder rule and so on and so forth. Mind you, I'm not talking about downright wrong verdicts (of which there are enough) here.