JUDICIAL SYSTEM DISGRACE

The solution seems obvious to me. Between idiot judges, prosecuters, police and occasionally citizens on juries, citizens continue to be convicted of crimes they did not commit. How can this be, under a system of so called "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt"? The reasons are complex and include laziness, bias, stupidity, personal agrandizement and finally malice. The solution is fairly straightforward. Each and every judge, cop and prosecuter who declared an innocent person guilty, then gets to take his or her place in jail. Think about it. Wouldn't that be an incredible incentive to get things right the first time? Yes indeed there would be some bad apples who were guilty walk free but that is what the system is supposed to do. Only convict the guilty even if due to a lack of evidence the occasional guilty party is exonerated. Last Monday's Waterloo Region Record shares this story "Hurricane" loses battle with cancer". This is of course one famous Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, posterboy for racially biased prosecutions everywhere.

The list just keeps on growing of citizens wrongfully convicted of murder. Funny thing is if our judicial system can't do it right with serious crimes, what makes you think they do any better with assault, rape, theft and on and on? Here in Canada we have Truscott, Morin, Marshall, Milgaard, and Baltovich who have become household names. Why aren't the truly guilty parties in the judicial system also household names? Our criminal justice system does not deserve our respect. It has become nothing more than a production line whose primary purpose has become the building of careers whether for lawyers and judges or for police. There will be no reform from within. Those within the judicial system are happy with the status quo. There's lots of money, power and status and we the citizens who pay for this mess are nothing but cogs in the machine.