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This is something ordinary people who haven’t run afoul of the justice system cannot understand. It must be witnessed first hand to be comprehended. The justic
by ryanmarsh 8y ago
This is something ordinary people who haven’t run afoul of the justice system cannot understand. It must be witnessed first hand to be comprehended.
The justice system is a big boulder at the top of a mountain. Once an arrest or accusation sets in it motion, unless you are powerful and or wealthy, it will do what boulders do, it can do no different. It is not cognizant, it just is.
It takes immense resources to stop or avoid this boulder. Resources far exceeding even the well-to-do often times.
The system is there to win cases and incarcerate and my god does it do just that.
Innocent or not, the system moves humans.
Do not pray the jury hears your side, pray you never get so much as accused. Look up the conviction rates for district attorneys across the country. You tell me, does that look justice?
- ams6110 8y agoI'd expect conviction rates to be pretty high. It means they are only bringing charges when they have strong evidence. If conviction rates were low I'd be asking why that prosecutor was wasting his time on cases he can't win.
- ryanmarsh 8y agoIt means they are only bringing charges when they have strong evidence We would hope so. It could also mean far worse things are happening. We’ve all seen documentaries and news shows of people wrongly convicted. Why do we think the only incidences are the ones reported. I’ve watched detectives lie on the stand when a guilty verdict was already in hand. Why do that? How do they treat the innocent if that’s how they act when the facts of the case are enough to convict?