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> The presumption of innocence needs to be a two-way street, surely? The presumption of innocence is a legal standard to partially offset the immense might of
by wnoise 10y ago
> The presumption of innocence needs to be a two-way street, surely?
The presumption of innocence is a legal standard to partially offset the immense might of the state. The prosecutors should need to do a very good job establishing that you actually did something before they can put you in a cage.
When it's people talking about statistical measures that don't directly disproportionately impact any given person, no, it doesn't.
- hueving 10y agoDid you even read the whole comment you replied to? The op didn't say the statistics were wrong, he/she just pointed out that they could easily be explained by either side of the confrontation behaving better in the presence of a camera. Which one behaves better is not covered by the stats.
- wnoise 10y agoOf course I did. And presuming one explanation for the stats is more likely than another because of background knowledge is not unreasonable. I'd go edit in "interpretation of", but it's too late to edit.