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> It may be that it was hard to prove the accused was doing X, but the bag of weed in their pocket was undeniable... Your point being?
by noncoml 3y ago
> It may be that it was hard to prove the accused was doing X, but the bag of weed in their pocket was undeniable...
Your point being?
- maerF0x0 3y agoMy point being that sometimes criminals get away with things not because we don't know who is doing what, but because we cannot make a court case. IANAL but my understanding is that the bar (no pun intended) is extremely high (no pun intended). Some will say "It should be high" but in the realworld we need a pragmatic approach that balances difficulty of proof vs innocent people incarcerated. It's my assertion that the only system which has 0 chance of false positives is the one which incarcerates no one. So it's about finding a good minima / balance.