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Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:19AM (#27192033)
that would punish justice systems for making mistakes, which if they are an honest system they are already being punished for because of course a mistake is the system being inefficient.

The purpose of awarding damages for false arrests is to punish malicious false arrests, or mistakes so egregious that we might as well consider them malicious, which some systems are more prone to than others.

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Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop by _ph_ on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:49AM (#27192181)
As the justice system does have a lot of power - like arresting people - of course mistakes should be punished to some extend. And those people making those mistakes, usually have little concerns over the efficiency of the justice system.
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Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:47AM (#27193073)
fiat rules that do not handle things on a case by case basis are particularly prone to perverse incentives.
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