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Originally Posted by valo403
First, you're using accused and charged as if they are interchangeable, that's not the case. Second, it is certainly possible to be accused or charged without sufficient grounds to do so. Where do you think the thousands of civil suits against police departments for unlawful arrest and confinement come from?
I'll agree that bad cops and bad decisions are typically in the minority, but that doesn't mean that the minority hasn't reared it's head in this instance. The facts we have are one sided and limited, but from my personal experiences with transit officers I wouldn't dismiss this as a fabrication so quickly.
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Those words are interchangeable. If you are charged with an offense, you are an accused. If you are an accused, you have been charged with an offense. Or maybe I don't quite get what you mean.
As I said, it is POSSIBLE to be charged without sufficient grounds. The fact there are civil suits is not indicative or being wrongfully accused. In fact, the vast majority of appeals are rarely based on insufficient grounds to actually lay a charge but more so on other sections of the CCRF (Section 8 is a common one). There are a lot of checks and balances to be sure police and other peace officers did indeed have the grounds to lay a charge and for the most part, they are pretty effective.