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And how many innocent people were convicted based on false positives? How many guilty people were convicted based on true positives?
by sadris 7y ago
And how many innocent people were convicted based on false positives?
How many guilty people were convicted based on true positives?
- Jill_the_Pill 7y agoThese are not comparable. The first must be zero, and the second should be "as many as possible while keeping the first at zero."
- sadris 7y agoIt must be zero? What if that resulted in 50% of murderers getting away?
- UncleEntity 7y agoThen the justice system is relying on faulty technology.
- sodosopa 7y agoThe justice system relies on human memory all the time. That’s the most unreliable thing we currently use.
- ericns 7y agoWhat happened to "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." As expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s. Seems you're willing to punish an innocent man and a guilty man just to make sure a committed crime is followed up with a conviction. Why have such a low bar in 2019?
- Jill_the_Pill 7y agoInnocent people are killed by the same murderers in both scenarios. In yours, they are also sometimes killed or imprisoned by the state and are therefore at more total risk.
- DrGrX 7y agoTrying to eliminate false positives at the expense of letting criminals go free is a staple of western criminal law dating back to 1760s. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
- RHSeeger 7y agoConvicted isn't the right metric. Accusing someone of some crimes (generally anything sexually related or child related) is enough to ruin their life.