The remarkable truth is that most regular people in the US don't actually care about wrongly ruining people's lives. Most people are primarily concerned with living their own life, and avoiding winning the shit lottery, and when they find out someone else won, they count their lucky stars it wasn't them and move on.
It would be far better if people invested time, effort, and money into dismantling the shit lottery itself. But most people don't have the resources. And, dismantling the shit lottery is a good way to increase your odds of 'winning' it. (Speaking truth to power most often doesn't end well for the speaker.)
Easy. The reasoning goes: Since people are convicted, those people must be guilty. Therefore, anything which is done in order to get people convicted is good and acceptable. They then sleep soundly at night knowing that they convict only guilty people.
(Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18450620#18453319)
So, I mean, in they're view, they probably figure that they, well,
"Fixed the Glitch":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUE0PPQI3is
Other people's constitutional rights will likely be violated, but hey, "these things work themselves out" right?
/end sarcasm
How do people live with themselves when they knowingly implement shoddy products and processes like these that literally ruin peoples' lives? It's crazy.