Jesse Friedman: “Forget it? I can never forget it.”

[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]

“The American public is wholly ignorant about way too many things,” he began. “And one of them is this notion — it’s called the “Law and Order” Effect. Everybody thinks that the criminal justice system works the way “Law and Order” does. They think that truth and facts always are uncovered by hardworking determined people, that guilty people go to prison and innocent people are found to be innocent and the real perpetrators get caught and the whole thing gets neatly wrapped up in 42 and a half minutes if you take out the commercials. That’s not how the criminal justice system works…”

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/11/jesse_friedman_forget_it_i_can_never_forget_it_it_never_ever_goes_away/

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