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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts
It is also worth noting that the majority of paperwork that keeps officers tied to desks rather than out on the streets, is due to our legal systems and rights of the accused. Untill the judicicial system is altered, whatever might be said about paperwork cutting is doomed to failure.
Essentially defence lawyers are now looking first, not at what the strength of the evidence is, but whether all the techinicalities of proceedures have been followed.
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I have to disagree. The paperwork seems mostly about the government imposing their targets and making sure they're not discriminating.
I have no objection to records being kept to ensure that the innocent are not prosecuted or convicted and that procedures are observed properly (ask the victims of miscarriages of justice where confessions have been faked or evidence has been corrupted), to weaken that system is to weaken the entire priciples of Justice.