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Re:Rio de Janeiro’s police killed a record number of people ... by dmix on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:10PM (#19850806)
Nearly every news website's comment section for a serious crime has someone saying "we should just line them up and shoot thm, save everyone the time and money". As if this hasn't been said a million times and wasn't a terrible idea each of those million times.

Anyone can spend 2min googling "wrongful convictions" and the number of people found innocent by the judicial process to see why.

Not to mention the whole reason why "lynch mob" style justice is a terrible idea (it's a highly emotional process which gets it wrong wayyy more often than courts/police, the punishments are often way out of proportion to the crimes, no due process, etc, etc).

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Re:Rio de Janeiro’s police killed a record number of people ... by luckylion on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:45PM (#19851144)
> Anyone can spend 2min googling "wrongful convictions" and the number of people found innocent by the judicial process to see why.

This is just as good an argument against any form of law enforcement though. Don't imprison people because you will undoubtedly also target innocent people. Mind you, I'm not pro capital punishment, but "don't do it, because you will also hit innocent people" isn't a good argument against it.

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