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Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by shalmanese on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:25PM (#21364578)
In America, there really isn't a concept of false arrests. There is a "not guilty" verdict but not an "innocent" verdict. If you're forcing states to pay out in the case of not guilty verdicts, then you're introducing a whole new host of bizarre incentives.
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Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by ulucs on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:05PM (#21365535)
That is akin to not being able to accept the null hypothesis in statistics, as we assume innocence ant try to prove guilt (with the p-value of "a reasonable doubt"). While we should not explicitly disincentivize negative results, this doesn't mean that we shouldn't penalise p-hacking.
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Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by snagglegaggle on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:38PM (#21364664)
There are already incentives to arrest as many people as possible.
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Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by squarefoot on Saturday October 26, 2019 @02:04PM (#21365214)
Exactly. Prisons are just like hotels: keep them constantly full and money will keep coming, no matter from where.
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Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by kgwxd on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:31PM (#21364607)
Then we'd need laws for scamming the false arrest system. But people snorting bird shit would be hilarious.
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Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by all2 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:34PM (#21364635)
This reminds me of the cat urine South Park episode : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIiOsuDRFk

I don't know why...

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Re:$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using ... by SamReidHughes on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:31PM (#21365685)
America has that concept encoded in the fourth amendment and the law built up around it.
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