Alpha_Msp t1_j1xi0rq wrote on December 28, 2022 at 3:07 AM

If a couple of podcaters can do your job better, you should not have any input on who goes to jail or for how long.

jordantask t1_j1yncdn wrote on December 28, 2022 at 10:51 AM

Thing is that North America police have painted themselves into a corner with how they treat people and how the system works. Nobody interacts with cops by choice, and the people tangentially involved in the criminal world, the most likely ones to give up information, don’t often do so voluntarily anymore.

So, you’re starting to see the impacts of this on their job performance.

Trust for cops is at an all time low so nobody offers up help anymore.

_Unfair_Suspension_ t1_j1z5bp1 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 2:09 PM

Not just cops, judges too!

https://youtu.be/Te0FXDN7kV0

Some guy took pictures of an elderly couple's hibiscus plants and showed it to the police. And somehow, the police failed to recognize it wasn't cannabis, despite supposedly being trained to recognize cannabis.

So they went to a judge to get a warrant. And somehow, the judge saw photographs of a hibiscus plant and decided to grant a warrant for cannabis (WTF???).

So they raided the house and it somehow took the cops 4.5 hours to figure out that the plants they were staring at wasn't pot. And somehow, the cops seized the plants anyway, despite filing no charges.

What kind of clown show are they running in that city where NOBODY in that entire chain-of-command could tell the difference between pot and flowers?????

>"I'm starting to understand why a lot of the public do not trust police officers. And I'm starting to see a lot on TV that I had always thought 'no, you had to be wrong because the police wouldn't make such a bad mistake'...yeah they would."

ReAndD1085 t1_j1z3ag9 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 1:52 PM

97% of cases end with a plea deal where the person admits some wrong and over 90% of the remaining cases which go to trial end up with a conviction on at least one charge.

If a cop arrests you in America, you WILL go to jail and then prison unless you can plea your way to some kind of community service type punishment

_Unfair_Suspension_ t1_j1z5tr8 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 2:13 PM

There's always the chance the prosecutor drops the charges (usually the day before the trial they've spent weeks/months pursuing and claiming to be ready for) because they have no evidence and hoped you'd just take a plea...