In the hallway of a Chicago public housing complex in the summer of 2008, a young man came face to face with a police sergeant known for planting drugs on people.
The wrongful conviction, and the corruption that caused it, likely would have remained hidden if not for a federal investigation of Watts that resulted years later in the sergeant's pleading guilty in an unrelated case to stealing from an informant.
The tally is very likely a vast undercount of the actual number of instances in which misconduct has led to the convictions of innocent people, according to researchers at the registry, which is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Michigan Law School and the Michigan State University College of Law.
I know this is hard for you...what percentage of total convictions is this number? So, in other words...they get it right almost all of the time. More importantly, they make it safe to walk down the street.
And how many 'wrongful' convictions are there?
Is that implying that 46% are just wacky accidents?
I never would’ve imagined...that it was only 54% I believe it’s much much higher
No, those were done on purpose.
Interesting.
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54% of 2,900 isn't a lot. So what the article is really saying is this doesn't happen often and the fact that people figured out and prosecuted the guilty people our system is still working...Got it.
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Black people in America already know this.
Water wet
And vary little is being done about it .
Sadly innocent people, both black & white, get convicted of crimes they did not commit. The media focuses on stories of black people because that furthers the racial divide, which is good for business.
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