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In America, there really isn't a concept of false arrests. There is a "not guilty" verdict but not an "innocent" verdict. If you're forcing states to pay out in
by shalmanese 7y ago
In America, there really isn't a concept of false arrests. There is a "not guilty" verdict but not an "innocent" verdict. If you're forcing states to pay out in the case of not guilty verdicts, then you're introducing a whole new host of bizarre incentives.
- kgwxd 7y agoThen we'd need laws for scamming the false arrest system. But people snorting bird shit would be hilarious.
- all2 7y agoThis reminds me of the cat urine South Park episode : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIiOsuDRFk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIiOsuDRFk I don't know why...
- snagglegaggle 7y agoThere are already incentives to arrest as many people as possible.
- squarefoot 7y agoExactly. Prisons are just like hotels: keep them constantly full and money will keep coming, no matter from where.
- ulucs 7y agoThat is akin to not being able to accept the null hypothesis in statistics, as we assume innocence ant try to prove guilt (with the p-value of "a reasonable doubt"). While we should not explicitly disincentivize negative results, this doesn't mean that we shouldn't penalise p-hacking.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoAmerica has that concept encoded in the fourth amendment and the law built up around it.