What I’m saying is that the chances of wrongful conviction shouldn’t arise. Ever. That should be how serious we should be rooting out systemic inequalities. If a society is actually just, wrongful convictions become a non issue. Does that mean that it won’t ever occur? No, but the chances are significantly decreased to where the ones that do occur have the legal frameworks in place to prevent and minimize such occurrences. Perhaps additional appeals, considerations, pardon process from victims etc.
Think of it something like airline regulations, where the process is so stringent, that every single incident is analyzed, learnt from and guarded against in the future. I bet you, that if we were really serious about this, we can collectively solve it. We’ve solved it for space travel, airlines, medicine and countless other fields with implications far beyond what we can cover here. All it takes is collective willingness.
The benefits:
- Tax payer dollars are routed to rehab services instead of subsidizing prison operations and budgets.
- Deterrent for people thinking about committing egregious crimes, think serial rapists, mass murderers, serial pedophiles etc.
- Closure for families that go through traumatic events such as these.
- Laws value human life, equity and justice above all because there’s lives at stake and each conviction has gravity to it.
In terms of proof of ineffectiveness, can you point me to some research?
Dude… re-read my comment.