Sadie’s review of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets > Likes and Comments
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Agree - though for me it wasn't the clearance rate (which as far as I could tell seemed to be based on charges, not convictions), it was the way they conducted suspect interviews. I know that it was 40 years ago but the level of intimidation and abuse just seems completely wild and not something a court would ever accept today. There is just no chance that these guys - who we come to like, and respect, and who are genuinely trying and largely succeeding at bringing about justice! - were not ALSO responsible for a non-zero number of wrongful convictions. I have to hope that things have improved by the 2020s but in America, who knows.
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Agree - though for me it wasn't the clearance rate (which as far as I could tell seemed to be based on charges, not convictions), it was the way they conducted suspect interviews. I know that it was 40 years ago but the level of intimidation and abuse just seems completely wild and not something a court would ever accept today. There is just no chance that these guys - who we come to like, and respect, and who are genuinely trying and largely succeeding at bringing about justice! - were not ALSO responsible for a non-zero number of wrongful convictions. I have to hope that things have improved by the 2020s but in America, who knows.
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