Some geography documents referred that in Japan if you are prosecuted for a crime you are found guilty 97% of the time. In the first way of telling about a particular case this works in the opposite way that this distribution tells less than a prosecution in a random country. Then in a second way how this very limited factoid gives reason to suspect that something is very amiss with the system.
The documentary put forth that Japanese hate for the state to be proven wrong and go to inappropriate lengths to avoid such flows of events. It also feels that culture has greater weigth for the gravity of not fitting in, so a lot of the conflict resolving might be done “informally” before it becomes police business. With active witchhunters the official officials only do the most extreme cases or the most excusable gray area usages are being actively hidden if they are otherwise socially desirable.
Probably if one were interested in tweaking the system there would have to be details on who has the authority do what based on what level of proof. And the case that the system is working correctly could have many details to great length to seem okay. And I would guess that true progress would be a very slippery and hard to detect and very resistant to trivial solution attempts. Yet the case that there is something to be found seems pretty strong.
Where did you get the 97% number from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINAk2xl8Bc suggests that 60% of those who are investigated for a crime by the police don’t get charged with the crime.
My memory fails me, but it was a documentary bit on youtube where the narrator was on a japanese street and I might have misremembered the exact number.
The linked source has the same number even higher at over 99%. Choosing a handy solid factoid and building a fluffy narrative around it is a known way to lie with statistics. And the linked source attributes the criminal system as a whole being not that particularly harsh by arrestors letting people away quite easily.
It is low amount of information so in that sense it is not surprising that it isn’t a satisfactory description.
To me it would seem weird if a procecutor had ample evidence but didn’t think the person should be convicted and thus doesn’t push the case. I am more used to the trial, jury or judge to argue reasonableness. To treat first timers by having their sentence be conditional rather than police letting people walk until they start to remember their faces.
Some geography documents referred that in Japan if you are prosecuted for a crime you are found guilty 97% of the time. In the first way of telling about a particular case this works in the opposite way that this distribution tells less than a prosecution in a random country. Then in a second way how this very limited factoid gives reason to suspect that something is very amiss with the system.
The documentary put forth that Japanese hate for the state to be proven wrong and go to inappropriate lengths to avoid such flows of events. It also feels that culture has greater weigth for the gravity of not fitting in, so a lot of the conflict resolving might be done “informally” before it becomes police business. With active witchhunters the official officials only do the most extreme cases or the most excusable gray area usages are being actively hidden if they are otherwise socially desirable.
Probably if one were interested in tweaking the system there would have to be details on who has the authority do what based on what level of proof. And the case that the system is working correctly could have many details to great length to seem okay. And I would guess that true progress would be a very slippery and hard to detect and very resistant to trivial solution attempts. Yet the case that there is something to be found seems pretty strong.
Where did you get the 97% number from? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINAk2xl8Bc suggests that 60% of those who are investigated for a crime by the police don’t get charged with the crime.
My memory fails me, but it was a documentary bit on youtube where the narrator was on a japanese street and I might have misremembered the exact number.
The linked source has the same number even higher at over 99%. Choosing a handy solid factoid and building a fluffy narrative around it is a known way to lie with statistics. And the linked source attributes the criminal system as a whole being not that particularly harsh by arrestors letting people away quite easily.
It is low amount of information so in that sense it is not surprising that it isn’t a satisfactory description.
To me it would seem weird if a procecutor had ample evidence but didn’t think the person should be convicted and thus doesn’t push the case. I am more used to the trial, jury or judge to argue reasonableness. To treat first timers by having their sentence be conditional rather than police letting people walk until they start to remember their faces.
This source gives the conviction rate a range of 83.3% to 97.7% depending on the level of court and the type of charge.