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"Atrocities like their handling of the Aum Shinrikyo cult"? Are you referring to the guy falsely blamed for the Matsumoto attack? The police are indeed likely
by jpatokal 12y ago
"Atrocities like their handling of the Aum Shinrikyo cult"? Are you referring to the guy falsely blamed for the Matsumoto attack? The police are indeed likely to blame for leaking his name to the media, but he was never even formally charged, much less convicted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Kouno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Kouno
The investigation of the Tokyo sarin attacks, on the other hand, seems to have been carried out pretty much by the book and I'm not aware of anybody outside the tinfoil hat brigade who contests that they got the right people.
- hga 12y agoAfter the sarin attacks, they did a good job. I'm referring to the multiple times they dropped the ball prior to that point, which among other things allowed the sarin attacks to happen. Their screwup on the Matsumoto attack is an obvious example; they they harmed an innocent in an incorrect focus on him is in a way much less important than letting the culprits later do much worse.