Should the public or police pay for false arrest and evidence?

Recently inmates being released from prison after serving 26 and 27 years, found innocent by DNA evidence are being given money to get their lives going. Should the public or the police pay for these gross errors?Should the public or police pay for false arrest and evidence?
That first answer given by Apathy is completely ignorant at best. Innocent people are sitting in prison as we speak because of faulty evidence, bad defense lawyers, perjury by witnesses, etc. If somebody is exonerated after 27 years the public should pay for that. Since it's the public who pays to put them there and house them we should pay for there freedom 1000x over again. Read the book ';The Innocent Man'; by John Grisham and you'll understand just some of the injustice that takes place across America.Should the public or police pay for false arrest and evidence?
DNA evidence was introduced until the mid 1980's. It was not available to the investigating officers. 1982 was 27 years ago. The police had to depend on witness testimony and other physical evidence other than DNA.





The police are agents of the public. The public pays for their errors, unless one could prove gross negligence or abuse by the individual officers, not just errors.
If you basically had your whole life, pass you by, while in prison for something you did not do, would you not want a restitution also?


We gave the Japanese from WWII a compensation for being held in Camps in Washington State because we feared they may be sympathizers.


How do you say sorry, you were not lying 27 years ago, when you said you were innocent.


I think everyone who has been done an injustice should be given $1,000,000 tax free.
Yes. I'm sure if you went to go to jail for 27 years, you would want to be paid for lost wages and all that stuff... and oh yeah. The fact that you spent 27 YEARS in jail for something you didn't do.
Neither. The police did their jobs. And the public did their jobs.


I say, make the scientists, who figured out how to use DNA as evidence, pay, for not figuring this out sooner.
Usually the gross error is letting them go. Evidence gets lost over time and people die or forget the incident that's why on re-trial there isn't enough evidence to convict even though they were defiantly guilty of the crime.
It's the public paying for it either way seeing as the public pays for the police.
well since the police are paid with your tax money you'll really be paying for it either way right?... And Texas is paying 80,000 for ever year of incarceration $80,000 times 25 years equals 2 million...what cop can afford that?
They were convicted by juries of their peers.

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