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I'm a volunteer court observer for DV court and some days it feels like half of the cases are someone misusing state surveillance tools to stalk or abuse women.
by giraffe_lady 2y ago
I'm a volunteer court observer for DV court and some days it feels like half of the cases are someone misusing state surveillance tools to stalk or abuse women. The victims are almost always women. The abusers aren't always cops, probably a slight majority of them are other workers with access to these systems. I don't find out what happens to them afterwards but I never seem to hear about police getting fired for this.
- potato3732842 2y agoThere's SIGNIFICANT selection bias at play in such a setting. (not that you're not correct in that the more equal animals never face the same consequences less equal ones do).
- giraffe_lady 2y agoWhat's the bias I don't really understand. That I only see the ones that get caught and had a victim willing to show up in court over it? So this is actually probably a much bigger issue than I think it is?
- potato3732842 2y agoOnly cases with easy to prove paper trails are worth taking to court, straightforward cases where the result is all but guaranteed get settled outside court, etc, etc.
- kelnos 2y agoNot sure how that refute the GP's point. You're just saying that what the GP has seen is a smaller part of all the bad stuff that really happens. Which they acknowledged.
- potato3732842 2y agoMy point is don't draw conclusions from what you see in court. Just because probate court is packed doesn't mean most heirs can't figure it out amicably. Just because you're seeing the cases that create prosecutable paper trails doesn't mean anything about what fraction of that type of crime they are.