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According to compiled police data, only 2% of arrests result in convictions. If 2% of the burgers a cook made were edible, he'd have a very big problem on his hands.
Considering the frequency of false convictions and the rate at which they are achieved by coercion I'd say it's even worse than that.
Less actually. Engels described this in the "Conditions...", even in the conditions of purposeful and pretty obvious starvation only a minority of victims turned to crime. Especially that back then, even being unemployed or homeless or too poor to live was literally a crime, as the poor law stipulated, punished by the forced labour camp.
So really, this is the point of this survelliance system - not to prevent crime but to criminalise everyone. As old saying goes "there are no innocents, only people insufficiently interrogated".
EDIT: wrong person, i wanted to write this to @[email protected]
But arresting people as a form of harassment is the burger. Having a cop roll up on a guy sitting on the curb and throwing him in the back of a squad car is the service Americans want.
If anything, the low conviction rate is a problem only in so far as a court proceeding exists at all. Leave them all in jail forever, Gitmo style, and Burger Folk won't complain.