Quantifying systemic pressure towards injustice

[Jason McVetta]

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

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen at 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.
>
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