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Why is it like that? Is it especially bad for prosecutors' careers to not get convictions?

• beeboop 11y ago
  My guess is laziness. The easiest way to get a conviction is to the the shitty things mentioned. It requires less thought and less effort but still appears to be doing your job as a prosecutor.
• unprepare 11y ago
  yes. I believe that prosecutors generally want to progress into a political or judicial career. Those careers value high conviction rates, political careers love people "tough on crime"
  • webXL 11y ago
    "tough on crime" == "soft on justice" I think voters fall for that slogan because we hate crime and injustice (unfairness) in general. Even though we need to be critical of both sides of the law ("we the people"), it's far easier to focus on/attack the unfairness we see rather than promote the everyday fairness that we take for granted. And we need closure in a lot of cases, so just pin it on that seedy looking character over there if there's hardly any evidence. A mob mentality is born out of our natural desire for "law & order".
• Zigurd 11y ago
  being a prosecutor is a stepping stone to higher office. You get very politically ambitious people in that job. They live to win any way they can.