I personally think the biggest problem is that people even track their "conviction rate", ESPECIALLY public prosecutors. But it's worse for prosecutors: they g

I personally think the biggest problem is that people even track their "conviction rate", ESPECIALLY public prosecutors. But it's worse for prosecutors: they get evaluated on it. Convicting people is all that matters. And then people complain the prisons are too full ... If we replaced that metric by "how many years of freedom without serious crimes" did you create in defendants, using punishments ... and using just letting them go ... that would make a world of difference.