In a normal state of things the police doesn’t decide who is a criminal, the justice system does and that should be separated from the government. Sadly there are more and more corrupt countries these days.
But yeah giving them more money for anything else than to get more/better personel doesn’t help.
I don’t think anyone confuses what’s happening in the USA in recent years to anything that should be considered “normal”.
The fact is, the Justice system relies on the investigative work of the police and other law enforcement agencies, in order to collect the evidence and reconstruct events, then accuse the likely perpetrator.
… Except the law enforcement agencies are filled with people, and people suck. So 9 out of 10 times, people will “follow their gut” and look for evidence that supports what they think happened, and ignore any that doesn’t. So only evidence that supports their conclusion is presented to the Justice system, everything else is discarded… Even if some of those discards prove that the accused is not guilty.
The problem is that the Justice system is reading from the LEO’s story book, so when law enforcement writes fiction, the Justice system has no real way to prove that it’s not fact… Not without the accused throwing literally thousands of dollars into the effort of defending themselves.
Therefore, Justice gets served for those with the means to defend themselves, for everyone else, you’ll take whatever the LEO’s think you deserve.
In a normal state of things the police doesn’t decide who is a criminal, the justice system does and that should be separated from the government. Sadly there are more and more corrupt countries these days. But yeah giving them more money for anything else than to get more/better personel doesn’t help.
In a normal state, yes.
I don’t think anyone confuses what’s happening in the USA in recent years to anything that should be considered “normal”.
The fact is, the Justice system relies on the investigative work of the police and other law enforcement agencies, in order to collect the evidence and reconstruct events, then accuse the likely perpetrator.
… Except the law enforcement agencies are filled with people, and people suck. So 9 out of 10 times, people will “follow their gut” and look for evidence that supports what they think happened, and ignore any that doesn’t. So only evidence that supports their conclusion is presented to the Justice system, everything else is discarded… Even if some of those discards prove that the accused is not guilty.
The problem is that the Justice system is reading from the LEO’s story book, so when law enforcement writes fiction, the Justice system has no real way to prove that it’s not fact… Not without the accused throwing literally thousands of dollars into the effort of defending themselves.
Therefore, Justice gets served for those with the means to defend themselves, for everyone else, you’ll take whatever the LEO’s think you deserve.