Comment by pjc50
6 years ago
They get re-elected by jailing people, so there's a built-in incentive to pander to the prejudices of the majority and convict the innocent.
6 years ago
They get re-elected by jailing people, so there's a built-in incentive to pander to the prejudices of the majority and convict the innocent.
Do they?
Here, the justice system is completely unaccountable to the public, and if persecutors would be elected (in open elections), they would win by not jailing innocents.
That is literally not how electing prosecutors is playing out in the US. They have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Jailing innocents is rarely even an election issue.