• foyrkopp@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The problem isn’t straight-out corruption.

    It’s wonky incentivation.

    Judges that are not measured by how many people they send to jail will always be, on average, less trigger-happy than cops who are.

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      5 months ago

      I can see how this would make it worse on average.