But, but, but...  it's DUH LAW!

   On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Zenaan Harkness <[1]zen@freedbms.net>
   wrote:

     (Posted on behalf of an anonymous thoughtful person.)
     To paraphrase an associate from some years back:
             Many of today's "justice system" problems are the
             direct consequence of KPI based policing.
             KPI = Key Performance Indicator
     Similarly for courts as for police - when the KPIs for an individual
     human are used for monetary and career assessment and promotion,
     such as "number of parking tickets issued in the past year", then
     it is almost axiomatic that increasing KPI quantums shall result.
     It is also asserted that increasing KPI quantums for police,
     magistrates and judges, does not necessarily correspond to the
     common man's conception of "justice".
     It is only the supreme elevation of statute law above individual
     conscience, free will and common sense that even allows for the
     "community" to miss the obvious corruption of justice into the
     abhorrent proposition that "the more statute laws are enforced,
     the more justice we experience in our community".
     In the USA, the "gang of 12" trial by jury (or "grand jury"?) is
     enshrined as a (remote/frequent?) possibility of having unjust
     statute law declared illegal and or unenforceable.
     The situation is different here in Australia, where the State
     parliaments claim:
             - sovereignty,
             - the right to pass any law within their state
     constitutions,
             - the right to change their state constitutions with no
               involvement by the people (by voting or otherwise)
             - that every law they pass is valid before the courts,
             - and that all power not reserved to the Federal
     Commonwealth is
               the balance reserved to the states,
     thus leaving almost nothing to the lowly humans except for their
     right to vote once every 4 years.
     Excuses for this despotic corruption of common sense and the
     corruption of much of what the common man would call "moral
     behaviour" are readily prostrated in the public dialogue, from
     everyday conversations between friends to the mainstream media and
     more, with the most obvious fallacy being "more enforcement of
     statute law equals more justice";
     Fallacies of enforcement of statute laws (there are plenty more):
             - More enforcement of all statute law equals more justice.
             - If we don't enforce all the statute law, we'll have chaos.
             - I'm not doing anything wrong, so enforcement of unjust
     statute
               law does not effect me.
             - Humans cannot be trusted to exercise conscience and common
               sense, so we must impose statute law universally and make
     no
               exception for individual conscientious objection.
             - When another human consumes a drug I don't know about,
     they
               must be punished for their exploration and their personal
               choices, even though their exploration and choices effect
     no
               one else.
             - There might be a few small areas for improvement, but in
     general
               society, justice enforcement, and government, are working
     really
               well, since we have so many shiny things.
     So:
             1) Are there any studies which directly quantify or
     otherwise
                analyse (e.g. KPI- based) systemic pressure to injustice?
             2) If not, it ought be obvious to the entitled class that
     there
                are enormous accolades currently on offer to any and all
     who
                nail this scientifically, e.g. directly correlating KPI
     based
                policing with quantifiable unjust actions/ outcomes.
     King makers? How about hero makers - heroes of human rights, justice
     and common sense.

References

   1. mailto:zen@freedbms.net