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Training, experience, the requirement to follow procedures that safeguard the innocent.

• jxi 13y ago
  Some procedures also end up safeguarding the not-so-innocent.
• coldtea 13y ago
  >Some procedures also end up safeguarding the not-so-innocent. That's just as well. It's better to let a not-so-innocent walk, than to make an innocent pay.
  • jxi 13y ago
    That doesn't mean we should settle for that. I don't see why we can't have our cake and eat it too. You need a mix of strict procedures, but also lawless vigilantes. Only having strict procedures leads corruption/loopholes which leads to lots of criminals getting away needlessly. The strict procedures keep the vigilantes in check, and the vigilantes keep the people who foil the system in check.
    • coldtea 13y ago
      >You need a mix of strict procedures, but also lawless vigilantes. The very notion of justice in civilized western societies is that you DON'T need "lawless vigilantes". And they ain't that good either. All their allure comes from BS movies, TV shows and comic books. In real life "lawless vigilantes" are more like Southern lynching mobs.