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What I meant was that if the system is only interested in pursuing cases where there's a very likely conviction at the end, there must be a large percentage of
by smcl 6y ago
What I meant was that if the system is only interested in pursuing cases where there's a very likely conviction at the end, there must be a large percentage of unsolved crimes even if the absolute amount is smaller than the USA/UK/Germany/$comparisonCountry.
- jki275 6y agoYou misunderstand. They arrest someone and then coerce them to confess. The actual truth of guilt or innocence is not really relevant.
- smcl 6y agoNo I understand completely what you were saying ... but what this person was saying was that it's option #2. My replywas that if that is true that they only pursue cases that they are >99% sure they can convict on then there would be a sizeable backlog of crimes with no form of resolution as a result of this. From what I've read I suspected it was option #3 (i.e. what you said) but then I'm a complete outsider, having only been to Japan a couple of times so I don't know how valid my gut feeling is here.
- jki275 6y agoThey solve most cases. I'm not sure what the clearance rate is, but as I recall it was pretty high. But when you can beat a confession out of someone, that's not so hard to do.