Legal Questioning

My psychology teacher, who has an opinionated flair for the dramatic and a tendency to overshare, brought up the point that criminal investigation techniques and the associated sciences have gotten so advanced that the majority of convinctions are just. She went so far to say there are probably more people who walk free then are unjustly incarcerated. This however points to a fact in which it matters not, in this case, what the statistics are. Numbers, for once in this quantitative world in which we live in, are unimportant. The fact of the matter is that simply allowing one’s self to believe that the legal system is relatively optimised allows for greater powers to be taken. The watchers must be watched. The answer to Juvenal’s “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” must be the watched in a democracy. Simply allowing or at least accepting the actions of any one body or organisation through ignorance or even faith is tantamount to the invitation of exploitation. It is the duty of an informed citizenry to observe, question, and uncover the truth to best serve themselves and their community.