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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
It's not about letting police decide who the judges are...they are not the final say. It is about having some input from people who are the main players in the criminal justice system. Or maybe we should keep hiring tree huger judges who keep letting these criminals out on bail and given light sentences. The police reps can tell the judges what their concerns are and provide industry input to help pick the most well rounded judges.
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You do realise that in criminal prosecutions the police are almost always called as Crown witnesses and that they are urged to push for convictions. It is an aspect of the adversarial system. Police have a vested interest in one side of prosecutions, so do you see how there might be a conflict of interest?
As for "letting... criminals out on bail", well that just betrays that you either don't subscribe to the core Canadian value of presumption of innocence, or that you are ignorant of the matter. If the latter, I shall explain: in Canada we (those who subscribe to Charter values and principles of fundamental justice) believe that people are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and therefore these potentially-innocent people should not be imprisoned before that time. In a bail hearing a tree-hugging judge must consider whether the accused is a threat to society or a flight risk before granting bail. As a result of sensationalist media causing people like you to prejudge Canadians as criminals, judges now also have to weigh whether public perception dictates against the release of an accused.
Sigh....
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