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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by nickfromseattle on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:22AM (#17344441)
The U.S. has a similar rate in the federal court system, still lots of crime. I don't think it's the punishment.
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Re:Forgotten Employee (2002) by shubb on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:54AM (#17346599)
One aspect could be crime recording. A 99% conviction rate says two things for me:

- High risk of false positives

- Only straight forward cases are being tried, so presumably police are memory holing cases that they can't clean up quickly.

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