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A large chunk of the blame goes to the legal system as well, especially the assumption that computer records are correct, unless proven otherwise - which is a n
by Xylakant 3y ago
A large chunk of the blame goes to the legal system as well, especially the assumption that computer records are correct, unless proven otherwise - which is a nearly impossible uphill battle for the defendants in such cases. I can recommend this article on the topic https://emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-legal-system-made-it-so-easy https://emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-legal-system-made-i...
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoWhile that is true, specific people people knew that the system is faulty and lied in county. They should be in prison for perjury.
- Xylakant 3y agoThe article I linked touches on that much more elaborately than I possibly could, so forgive me the large quote: > But a saddening thing is that if it were not those particular identifiable individuals who were culpable (and they certainly should be held to account) then it would have been other individuals doing the same things. And this is because of legal and corporate contexts that facilitated this wrongdoing. > This is not to say that the guilty people can themselves blame the system - the culpable individuals could and should have done different things, at each and every step. Indeed, exceptional individuals could have stopped the nonsense and the cruelty. > But these were not exceptional individuals - they were individuals doing what they (wrongly) believed to be their job or performing what they (wrongly) believed to be their function or protecting what they (wrongly) saw to be legitimate interests. Those people are culpable for their actions, but they did so in a system that made doing the wrong thing easy, and such shortcomings will lead to another case like this.