Ticomaya wrote:Has anyone considered that we just have better cops over here?
Or, perhaps better prosecutors? Crappy defense attorneys?
Or, maybe our judges are just tougher?
'Better' is something relative.
But certainly your cops arrest faster (e.g. you can't and don't get handcuffed so quickly in many other countries).
Same with prosecutors (especially when conmsidering the different legal systems: in many countries they are independent civil servants, in some the investigations is done by judges ....).
Defense attorney? Well, you know, Tico, whatt is taught at law schools ...
Judges generally can only be as taugh as the law allows - within a certain "window" that is.
I'm still confirmed that the USA has tougher laws, aiming at bringing accused faster in prisons.
And that's why prison is thaught to be right place for someone having done something illegal.
I do think that such is fine. But I do hold other approaches to be ...
better working, in other countries and under other legal systems, different 'cultures' that is.