I'm getting the feeling that you're trolling here, Dann. Do we really have to have a discussion on the importance of having a fair criminal justice system?
What's unfair about sending criminals to jail?
Why do you hate Due Process of Law, Dann?
ABUSE of due process. I mean... 15 people see a mofo shoot a man. The police catch him with the murder weapon and a gun. SEND HIM TO PRISON. Fuck a trial yo.
Because of the way this has been abused in the past and present. The fact that police have been known to plant evidence, and beat confessions out of people.
What you are saying in your above example is actually "If the police claim this person committed a crime and claim that 15 people identified that person, (and they are not white) then that is evidence enough that this person did in fact commit the crime". There is no need for the government to actually prove that their claims are correct, nor to give the accused the opportunity to defend him/herself against such claims, because the government is omnipotent, right?
If you go that route we might as well return to the days of the Salem witch trials.
Angy Protestant Villager: "Burn her, she is a witch!"
Crazy Left Wing Civil Liberties Extremist: "But how do you know she is a witch?"
Angry Protestant Villager: "Didn't you just hear the Magistrate? He told us that she is a witch! BURN HER!"
CLWCLE: "Did the Magistrate provide any evidence that she is a witch? How do we know that the claims made are accurate?"
APV: "Off with you now! We had a trial, the witnesses said that they heard from this other person who heard from somebody else that she casted spell on the village and summoned the devil! Then she started making the girls scream in pain right there in the court room with her black magic! that was proof enough for the Magistrate that she is a witch!"
Do you believe in witches Dann?