Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year

Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by gruez on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:34PM (#31184715)

> The biggest resume priority seems to be maintaining a ludicrously high conviction percentage, which is awful for different reasons (innocent defendants forced into plea bargains).

I don't live in a jurisdiction that elect prosecutors, but is this actually a thing? Do candidates/incumbents run campaign ads on their conviction rate? Are voters researching/talking about the conviction rate of the candidates like it's a pissing contest?

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by rectang on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @03:53PM (#31184917)

Yes. It was true for our current US Vice President, Kamala Harris for example — but she's not an outlier, this happens all the time.

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-san-franci...

> If the conviction rate had been measured by actual cases pursued, rather than all cases referred by police, Hallinan said, his office would have had a conviction rate that was relatively similar to Los Angeles and other major cities.

> And Hallinan was getting results. Overall, crime rates were plummeting. Violent crime had gone down close to 60 percent in San Francisco since Hallinan took office.

> Still, the low conviction rate resulted in headline after headline about San Francisco’s permissive attitude toward crime, a media environment harnessed by the Harris campaign.

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