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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by benj111 on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:55PM (#19305985)
"There people always made the point that human judges making just decisions based on fairness."

I once had the 'pleasure' of working with a Magistrate. She was the most bigoted, opinionated person I've ever worked with. Judges are at best, just like everyone else.

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Re:Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years by candiodari on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:22PM (#19307046)
I personally think the biggest problem is that people even track their "conviction rate", ESPECIALLY public prosecutors.

But it's worse for prosecutors: they get evaluated on it. Convicting people is all that matters. And then people complain the prisons are too full ...

If we replaced that metric by "how many years of freedom without serious crimes" did you create in defendants, using punishments ... and using just letting them go ... that would make a world of difference.

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