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Originally Posted by Vexx
Cops are usually overworked and looking to charge *somebody* for a crime to get it off their inbox -- not to catch the *right* guy. Often they'll catch someone who's guilty of *something* and they figure "got a bad guy one way or another". This sometimes catches someone who actually hasn't done anything wrong at all (although the US system is so screwed up that the average American may commit 3 felonies a day without realizing it).
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You mean they have a quota of arrests to meet per unit time? Or they cannot drop cases due to insufficient evidence?
If I am not wrong in my interpretation, our "indefinite detention without trial" applies to high-probability suspects, but in the case of insufficient evidence, the suspect may be released with the passport impounded and regular reporting to a police station. On the other hand, if suspects cannot be traced, potential or not, the case will be dropped and shelved due to insufficient evidence.
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Originally Posted by Vexx
The Supreme Court in the US recently ruled that citizens who haven't been read their Miranda rights may have anything they say be used against them up to that point. The potential for abuse just screams out and warrants even law-abiding citizens to keep their mouths shut unless to say "not without a lawyer present". The ruling has actually made it tougher for cops to get cooperation from the citizens they should be working together with.
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How the heck can the system determine if the person read their Miranda Rights or not? It is no different to letting someone go free in the pre/early-Victorian Britain on the "transgression of sins" recitation of the Bible!