Here is something to think on: 1. One could say that they didn't tell the police straight away because you feared the attacker would attack you again

2. The person could injure themselves to make it look like a crime has actually been commited

3. Officers are human and prone to mistake.

Me thinks OP murdered a murderer

Or working on a screenplay

Released ages ago called Dexter.

Yeah but it sucked. It was like watching a car crash over the course of six seasons.

Sometimes, even that would be more interesting.

Which is why I like to deliberately run into cars on dual carriageways and run away.

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Yes, FAPAs are granted as a matter of course in elected judge states. No element of truth has to be demonstrated. Any family law attorney (no matter what type of person they typically represent) will dismissively declare that 50% of FAPAs are completely made up and/or spurious at a minimum. Cops aren't really great people in general, less great than judges, in fact. That you think they are indicates you might not have known any or simply that you think brutishness and nastiness is deserved.

And lol at "good people don't go to prison". You need to visit your local county jail. You really do. I hope you have the human decency to be ashamed at the treatment there.

Actually, our forensic tools kinda suck and given the crudeness of the methods used during regular police work, it's not that hard to deduce that there are probably many innocent individuals sitting in a cell right now.

Roughly speaking, about 50% of serious crimes are solved and in those 50%, dreadfully obvious cases are included (eg, security camera taped the whole thing).

Given the above, the number of convictions that are closed with anything approaching the degree of certainty found in a show like say, CSI, is close to null.

Heck, if the prosecution's cases were always so airtight, it wouldn't take months (and sometimes years) to prosecute serious offenders.

And then, there is always the human element during police work. I've heard of enough horror stories about cops pursuing their own private vendettas (sometimes openly lying or messing with the evidence) to know that policemen are not perfect, especially when the pressure is on to close a "hot" case.

Actually, my mother worked in a prison teaching computer sciences to prisoners and believe me, the vast majority of prisoners want out.

You are over fixating on the 1%.

They tend to have issues that set them back.

However, defining them solely by those issues alone is taking a dangerously tilted view.

And btw, most inmates are not killers or rapists and most killers & rapists are not serial ones.

Actually, you're barking up the wrong tree if you want to make a case about genetic determinism.

I met my biological father at the age of 23 and except for some mannerisms, looks and a creative mind, we didn't have much in common.

Criminals are citizens that went off course at some point.

Some of them are sociopaths and should be behind bars for the rest of their lives, but most aren't.

They have the potential to live out productive lives, make friends, have a family and contribution to society in a meaningful way.

Btw, getting them all the way to adulthood was a significant social investment from a lot of people.

Their parents, for starters, but also the school system and health care.

The economic incentive to set them back on the right track is high.