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From one piece The framing of Chris Duncan 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.Their words
The old system stubbornly defied reform because it served the people in power.
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Letting prosecutors pick who performs an autopsy produces the findings prosecutors want.Their words
Prosecutors tended to choose doctors they could trust to give them the results they wanted.
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Forensic experts exposed as frauds, and the prosecutors who keep using them, face no consequences.Their words
And while some courts have ruled that Hayne and West aren’t credible experts, the two men never faced any real accountability.
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Bite-mark matching is junk science, and the courts have admitted it for five decades anyway.Their words
To be clear, bitemark evidence is junk science. There has never been any scientific research to support the idea that bites on human skin can be matched to the teeth of one person, to the exclusion of everyone else.
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Recorded crime partly measures policing: a neighbourhood policed harder produces more crime in the statistics.Their words
Particularly with gun and drug crimes, communities with more aggressive policing tend to produce more crimes in part because law enforcement polices them more aggressively.
A guide to racism in the criminal justice systemradleybalko.substack.com
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From one piece Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Canada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.
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A confession stops the investigation that would have cleared the innocent person who gave it.Their words
A confession, though, will sometimes preclude police from doing the very sort of investigation that would prove the confessor’s innocence.
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The dominant American police interrogation method is good at producing confessions and bad at producing true ones.Their words
The Reid technique works at getting confessions. But it’s less successful at getting accurate ones.
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