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by cucumber3732842 32 days ago
>A one hour period and 150 meter radius of a bank surrounded by high-rises and public transit? no.

Two weeks of no leads and that no is gonna start looking an awful lot like a yes.

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Picking 1000+ people at random doesn’t fix that problem
Surely one of those thousand can be made to look guilty enough for a prosecution. Solves the problem of looking like you're doing something real well.

The system does not care about prosecuting criminals. It cares about prosecuting people for crimes. While it may prefer to prosecute criminals for their specific crimes that is by no means a hard requirement.