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.
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.