[ryandrake]

> Prosecutors know it’s junk science too. But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. [...] She [Harpster] said she disguised 911 call analysis in court by “getting creative … without calling it ‘science.’”

Unfortunately, prosecutors are not trying to find out the truth, they're simply trying to put whoever is in front of them in prison. It doesn't matter if the suspect is guilty. If the guy goes to prison, they win.

> This judge wouldn’t allow her to continue and cut the testimony short. Faria was acquitted. He’d spent three and a half years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.

> None of this bothered Harpster, who needed fresh kudos to repackage as marketing material and for a chapter in an upcoming book.

"Justice" system.

[rossant]

> Unfortunately, prosecutors are not trying to find out the truth, they're simply trying to put whoever is in front of them in prison. It doesn't matter if the suspect is guilty. If the guy goes to prison, they win.

Yes, exactly. I still can't wrap my mind around this.

[throwitaway222]

To an extent, everything is pushed to its limits in all human systems, so that it's most efficient. If things operate at random amounts between minimum and maximum, it's not efficient, and also unpredictable.

The same system also allows a lawyer that knows his client is guilty to still defend them (if they wish).

At the end of the day, if someone is dead or something is stolen, there are cases where we know what happened (for example video evidence). In the other cases, where we don't know for sure (hearsay, witnesses, etc..) if we don't convict someone is not getting justice. It can absolutely be wrong but this is where the two pressures of the system have to work as hard as possible and see where it breaks. There is no other way to do it.

[darby_eight]

> To an extent, everything is pushed to its limits in all human systems, so that it's most efficient

...with respect to which parameters? Efficiency is not an absolute measurement in any sense.

To my mind, an efficient justice system would address crime materially relevant to the median citizen per cost to the tax payer, not the rabid delusions of the average new york post reader.

[giraffe_lady]

You seriously cannot think of a single other way to do it?

[worik]

"Justice" system

Yes. It is not. It is a "legal" system