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He sued for $1.5 million for being jailed for a week? That seems completely unreasonable. The police operates on imperfect evidence, and as long as we don't sw

He sued for $1.5 million for being jailed for a week? That seems completely unreasonable. The police operates on imperfect evidence, and as long as we don't switch to an omniscient surveillance state, that will always be the case. Catching the wrong guy and letting him go after a week seems like a reasonable mistake when you're looking for a murderer. If it had been 6 months, he would have had way more of a point.

throwaddzuzxd 5y ago
Can you imagine being wrongly imprisoned for a week and wondering if you'll ever get out? Living with the fear of something happening to you in an unknown and potentially unsafe environment? What about his reputation that might be permanently stained to his family members, friends, employers, the cops? I'd also try to get the most out of this awful week.
- JCharante 5y ago
  Also if you are not privileged enough in your place of employment, you could lose your job from being arrested due to missing work.
inetknght 5y ago
> He sued for $1.5 million for being jailed for a week? > That seems completely unreasonable. Here's [0] another article. He showed up in the location (Google) and his ownership of same make/color vehicle (surveillance video) added to his suspectibility. So he was arrested. A week later he was released. A year later he's suing for defamation, gross negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. In that one week: > the arrest causes him to fail background checks > news coverage prominently features in Google searches of his name > forced to drop out of school, having missing too many classes of the accelerated college program he was enrolled in So, he lost his job and his school. In one week he easily could have missed rent -- and this is before the pandemic so there's no moratorium on evictions. $1.5 million definitely isn't unreasonable for problems caused from being in jail for a week despite innocence. [0]: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10760055/innocent-man-23-sues-arizona-cops-for-1-5million-after-they-used-faulty-google-gps-data-to-arrest-him-for-murder/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10760055/innocent-man-23-sues-...
- PoignardAzur 5y ago
  Yeah. I guess I didn't think he'd suffered from so much damage.
- handoflixue 5y ago
  If you make $150K/year, that's still ten years of pay. We can discuss how much of a multiplier is reasonable for being punitive, but it seems rather obvious that a week in jail does not reasonably cost you ten years of Silicon Valley senior engineering wages. For anyone who is not blessed as a programmer and merely earns the average (median) of $36,0000 year, we'd be talking about 40+ years of lost wages.
  - inetknght 5y ago
    Yes, governments should be incentivised to not arrest people who are innocent. Go try to reform your local judicial system so that innocent people aren't arrested.
dmitrygr 5y ago
I agree. Should be 1.5 billion. Freedom has no price!

throwaddzuzxd 5y ago

Can you imagine being wrongly imprisoned for a week and wondering if you'll ever get out? Living with the fear of something happening to you in an unknown and potentially unsafe environment? What about his reputation that might be permanently stained to his family members, friends, employers, the cops? I'd also try to get the most out of this awful week.

JCharante 5y ago
Also if you are not privileged enough in your place of employment, you could lose your job from being arrested due to missing work.

inetknght 5y ago

> He sued for $1.5 million for being jailed for a week? > That seems completely unreasonable. Here's [0] another article. He showed up in the location (Google) and his ownership of same make/color vehicle (surveillance video) added to his suspectibility. So he was arrested. A week later he was released. A year later he's suing for defamation, gross negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. In that one week: > the arrest causes him to fail background checks > news coverage prominently features in Google searches of his name > forced to drop out of school, having missing too many classes of the accelerated college program he was enrolled in So, he lost his job and his school. In one week he easily could have missed rent -- and this is before the pandemic so there's no moratorium on evictions. $1.5 million definitely isn't unreasonable for problems caused from being in jail for a week despite innocence. [0]: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10760055/innocent-man-23-sues-arizona-cops-for-1-5million-after-they-used-faulty-google-gps-data-to-arrest-him-for-murder/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10760055/innocent-man-23-sues-...

PoignardAzur 5y ago
Yeah. I guess I didn't think he'd suffered from so much damage.
handoflixue 5y ago
If you make $150K/year, that's still ten years of pay. We can discuss how much of a multiplier is reasonable for being punitive, but it seems rather obvious that a week in jail does not reasonably cost you ten years of Silicon Valley senior engineering wages. For anyone who is not blessed as a programmer and merely earns the average (median) of $36,0000 year, we'd be talking about 40+ years of lost wages.
- inetknght 5y ago
  Yes, governments should be incentivised to not arrest people who are innocent. Go try to reform your local judicial system so that innocent people aren't arrested.

dmitrygr 5y ago

I agree. Should be 1.5 billion. Freedom has no price!