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This should be a good reminder that the only way we can have safe and just criminal courts is that the evidence, techniques and technology used by experts and p
by NotSammyHagar 9y ago
This should be a good reminder that the only way we can have safe and just criminal courts is that the evidence, techniques and technology used by experts and prosecution are public and reviewable. Whether it's the software that a dui measuring blood alchohol system uses, how they analyze your dna, it all needs to be public so we can measure things. I keep reading cases about how poor people get accussed of a crime and the "evidence" against them can't be understood or defended against because it's coming from unassailable experts with mystical skills.
A recent example I read about is the police trained to detect people high on drugs, where there is no real evidence behind the training and many known cases of false accusation, http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/12/georgia-pd-our-drug-recognition-experts http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/12/georgia-pd-our-drug-recogn.... Most of us fortunate to work in the technology world have money and access to lawyers who can defend against such accusations, but poor people don't have that.
I am not a cop but I know it must be incredibly hard to be one, and frustrating to see people get off of on technicalities. But poor l.e. practices must be prevented so we can have trust in the system.