In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants

Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by Zigurd on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:04PM (#43476518)

Dirty and thuggish cops are way more common than Americans think. The more benign form is detail and overtime fraud. But I'd bet the dollar amount easily rivals property crime value in your town.

Theft and fraud in businesses is more common than software people think. Kickbacks to purchasing managers, for example. You're less likely to encounter this than a casually dirty cop, but it's out there.

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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by mmooss on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @08:31PM (#43477623)

These are often-repeated arguments; we really need some facts to work with. Is there research on this?

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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @02:49AM (#43479488)

How reliable do you think research into the amount of undetected crime is?

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Re:In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Def... by mmooss on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:18AM (#43482547)

I think it's not perfect, but we have to work with imperfect information. I think it's far more reliable than Internet rando comments, which have zero reliability and are often misinformation, sometimes intentionally.

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