No. Our justice system has never actually been based on evidence.
It’s based on the doctrine of judicial discretion in the name of preserving order.
It’s based on the doctrine of judicial discretion in the name of preserving order.
Yep for public order reasons alone. Not saying thats a good think. IMHO its the main reason actual justice is lacking.
When these things come up people tend to venture into hyperbole. Probably because it's an incentives issue (it gets clicks and upvotes). If "preserving order" was the number everyone in the judiciary optimized for all of violent riots and protests against any cause you can imagine wouldn't have happened. But they did, so therefore this concept of "no evidence" is not true.
It's fine to be skeptical about private companies sharing "intelligence" (I would challenge the use of that word) with what are state-sanctioned entities (the police), and there's a long list of reasons to be skeptical. So obviously there is no reason to invent things that are not true.
Because everyone who has ever been convicted of a crime actually committed the crime.