A Prosecutor told me once that you can’t ever make it perfect - it’s the human nature of the problem that always fucks it up.
The only way to convict all the bad guys was to convict all the good folks too, and the only way to never convict a good guy was to let all the baddies go too.
Somewhere in the middle is the least bad answer we as a people can make.
I prefer that least bad answer to be tilted slightly towards higher burdens of proof of the part of the prosecution, and so generally has been the criminal justice system.
ROE is a facet of this. Statistically you end up with a question of how many innocent people does your ROE chew up and spit out as dog meat. And can you achieve your mission at these levels.
People have said that no dead innocents and no dead children should ever be tolerated.
I ask them “If a rogue scientist is standing in a crowd of children, preparing to release a genetically engineered virus that will kill every living thing on the planet, and the ONLY thing you can do that will work is use a tactical nuke on the teddy bear factory open house day the guy is attending...” “Do you say think of the CHILDREN? Or do you understand that sometimes these things happen...”.
“oh. so we nuke the place. damn right we do. and there is a 90% chance the guy that pushed the button is flipping the safety off the beretta in his mouth in the bathroom...”
Now that we have established that you are a prostitute, it’s time to dicker over the price...
