[ryandrake]

> judges, attorneys, police and prosecutors all work on the same team

These guys ultimately are desperately wanting a black box computer algorithm, where 1. you type in the suspect's name, 2. the algorithm spits out "guilty" and 3. that is admissible to a jury. If they had this, every single one of their jobs are a piece of cake:

A crime happens. The police can now pick up literally anyone they don't like. The prosecuting attorney doesn't have to do anything--just enter the suspect into the algorithm. The judge doesn't have to do anything. Computer Says YES. The jury doesn't have to do anything. Computer Says YES so I can convict and go home. This is the future of law enforcement. They just have to get that darn black box approved and invulnerable to defense attorneys.

[dreamcompiler]

Police always want their jobs to be easier. Everybody wants their own job to be easier.

The problem is that in a free society policing needs to be hard. Places where policing is easy are called police states.

[mypalmike]

Yes, it's telling how excited I've if the prosecutors in the story was because they got a conviction. Not excited by whether justice was done.