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In spite of skyrocketing US police budgets, cities' murder clearance rates are plummeting.
(europe.pub)
Article : https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unsolved-killings-record-high
Another graph on budgets
You understand why that will incentivize the wrong things, right?
Put another way: take a gander at Japan’s criminal justice system. You don’t want that.
I don't know much about the legal system in Japan but they have a higher clearance rate than US cops right?
Japan has an insanely high conviction rate. And the cops also don’t bother filing a case unless they’re pretty sure it’s a ~~spam~~ (e: lol) slam dunk
Tokyo Vice, while a drama, actually portrays Japanese police work in a roughly accurate sense. And the whole bit with how the yakuza have their tentacles into EVERYTHING is closer to the truth than many would like to believe.
Hey I've seen a couple movies like this.
I gotta go back to the sea
"Sprinkle some crack on the body and arrest the nearest homeless person, I've got my eye on a new camaro"
Is that how the justice system works in Japan?
Officially? No.
No because they don't even bother with any case that can't be cleared pretty much immediately, even if that means declaring obvious cases of murder as suicides or accidents. In criminal investigations accuracy is the most important metric not speed or even severity of the crime. You could pay based on conviction rates of course, but whether a conviction happens or not is often more about how stupid the criminal or prosecutor is, and would potentially incentivise faking evidence which is already a problem.