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Many interesting solutions are posited throughout the comments section. I've no doubt that many of them would help at least a bit. But the most important chang
by alexeisadeski3 13y ago
Many interesting solutions are posited throughout the comments section. I've no doubt that many of them would help at least a bit.
But the most important change must come from within the hearts of the voters that control western governments: Voters like prosecutorial overreach, as they consider every person dragged into court "guilty of something."
Until that attitude changes, meaningful change will be difficult.
- moron4hire 13y agoI wonder how much of that is a result of the TV Cop Show effect? For decades now, we've had shows that portray suspects as certainly guilty, just in need of the proving. If the suspect gets away, it's due to "technicalities", and particularly "edgy" shows will paint cops as heroes who frame/murder such people. Confessions coerced out of suspects through intimidation or physical torture are portrayed as "walking a moral line", rather than being COMPLETELY over into FLIPPING ILLEGAL.
- judk 13y agoWe used to have Perry Mason and Matlock, where the defense attorneys were the heroes of the show. What happened?
- elliotz 13y agoEven law enforcement characters were upright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wL9Li0f1Po http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wL9Li0f1Po
- arh68 13y agoAh, yes. The TV Cop. They're never wrong, never excessively violent, never need permission to "do their job", work happily with any TLA, have affairs with coworkers, glamorize the dirty cop, ... I don't think I've ever seen a routine traffic stop on TV. Maybe it's not TV-worthy. But if a five-year-old asks me, "What do cops do?", which version do I give them?
- noonespecial 13y agoThe way the laws are these days, everybody is. Of course, so are the ones not dragged in.