EU condemns the execution of a 9 times rapist and killer
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If the cops consider you a main suspect, its like a 97% chance of being found guilty regardless of what evidence they do or don't have. They could just cut the entire court system out and imprison whoever they guess did it, and almost nothing would honestly change result wise from right now.
By it being "sure of a win" they mean someone is already pinned for it and the rest is formality. And if someone isn't, or is so powerful that its uncertain, then yeah they just let it go.
Its even worse because their heavy shame society means people will be pressured to just confess to not embarrass their families and accept the accusation. So even if all of that wasn't true, it would still be a huge problem as someone like their brother would threaten them into going along with it anyway.
The cops don't really do the charging. It's the prosecution, much like korea iirc. Their high win rate was explained to me as they only fight cases they can win, not they're corrupt and frame people
If the cops brought you in, the prosecution isn't going to go against them by not charging you. And vice versa. They are still Asian bugmen, working under a hive mentality and not going against the cohesion of the organization. Though you are right the prosecution is the main source of it all.
And framing implies there is a manufactured narrative of them being guilty through evidence. The vast majority of their crimes are convicted based on confessions. Which are usually extracted via locking you in a room until you do so, usually without any counsel. What goes on in that room is probably not good either. Its so common they have a term for it, "Hitojichi shihō" or "hostage justice."
Even back in 1985 a famous law scholar (Ryūichi Hirano) in the country described the entire system as hopeless and designed to simply confirm whatever the prosecutor wanted, with the courts being a formality. Heck while looking this up I found out that suspended jury trials before WW2 and didn't bring them back until 2009 and its still 6 people and 3 "professional judges" (aka the ones who will being making the call).
It was actually considered a landmark change in summer 2024 when Tokyo and Osaka brought criminal charges against prosecutors for locking suspect in the interrogation rooms and extracting confessions out of them despite being innocent.
Their legal system is fucked on multiple levels, even if its partially responsible for them having such a "high trust" society that we all envy.
1/3 of the cases brought to prosecutors by police gets prosecuted. That's not a damning number for prosecutors and cops are framing people. That's more a damning number for prosecutors are fucking lazy
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c05401/order-in-the-court-explaining-japan%E2%80%99s-99-9-conviction-rate.html
And even the people the police interview, a lot of them go free.
"The overall arrest rate for criminal offenses was 46.6%, but for major crimes including murder and robbery, it was 93.4%."
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1264432/japan-crime-rate-by-offense/
I'm not saying that they're not brutal on suspects, but that's because ot be a suspect at that point, you're almost certainly considered guilty by them that they think they can win in court against you.
Is that good or bad? I rather a system that was harsher on criminals than one that was softer on them in case an innocent was convicted
So they are lazy until they are evil, I'll give you that caveat though it doesn't change my problem with their entire setup.
Once they actually decide to do something, the brutalize and toss away any amount of fairness or justice just to make sure they pin it on whoever they have decided is guilty. Which is the exact problem I've been outlining.
Beating, drugging and kidnapping someone until they confess to a crime they might not have committed just so you can say "we charged someone, success!" is a horrific abuse by the government in all ways and its concerning you seem to want to wave it off.
Well as someone who was both falsely accused of a major crime in my youth and then falsely MeToo'd so a girl could get out of paying rent, I'd say its pretty fucking bad because I'd absolutely be a marked felon under that system instead of the case having to drop from lack of evidence, before being expunged due to becoming obviously false. Our system not being like theirs is why I'm a happy family man who can work his current career and have a gun to protect myself/family with.
I'd rather we not have a justice system period if we are going to just start letting the government "be harsher" by letting them just decide to ruin innocent people to "maintain their record" and other meaningless whims. Especially after Covid showed how much they want to just imprison and charge people for literally nothing.