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by Nightshaxx 1952 days ago
A murderer kills less than 1% of all the people they meet. Does that mean we should just accept their behavior?
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A murderer who kills 1% of the people he meets has certainly committed a crime. A person who has a 99% chance of being a murderer has not certainly committed a crime.

That is depending on your threshold of certainty. 1% is not that high considering that, according to the OJJDP, 5 milion people were arrested for serious charges in 2019 so with a 1% false positive rate that would be 100,000 people falsely imprisoned every year.

It does not have to be and really can't be 0% but 1% is unreasonably high in my opinion. If it can't be helped then it can't be helped but that isn't necessarily the case with these devices.

The doctor did not have the _potential_ to fake evidence. He _did_ fake evidence.