Comment by multijoy on 26/12/2022 at 20:22 UTC

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View submission: Detective completely overhauled the way his department handled rape cases, greatly improving the clearance rate | Why aren't his tactics more widely adopted?

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Why? They are a witness, their testimony is evidence. Prior to forensics, witness evidence was often all we had.

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Comment by Individual_Put_3214 at 26/12/2022 at 20:24 UTC

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Because blindly believing one person over another isn't justice - we had that and it resulted in Emmit Till, our race history makes solely victim testimony a very very very bad idea in a lot of places in this country. But even putting that aside, just choosing to believe one party over another because one of them called you up first is crazy.

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We also used to shit outside in holes, but then we made a better way. Appealing to victim testimonies historical weight is a poor argument for why it should be enough to convict.