"the lifetime risk of being wrongfully convicted to the risk of being a victim of a violent crime. The relative risk ratio appears to be about 30,000 to 1." If so, we are trying way too hard to prevent wrongful convictions, relative to deterring crime.https://reason.com/volokh/2018/11/01/how-often-are-innocent-persons-convicted?fbclid=IwAR2Ac4e_BxGO74jcBt0nuKawrtBHgmBeinlo2wcG7NLWNLMDhpriG_xxjnk …
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Right.
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Are those wrongful convictions a worse problem than all the others?
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It seems to me that yes.
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