In the US, it's seen as a God-given truth that no innocent person should ever be punished. Partly because it was founded (in part) by oppressed minorities fleeing states where the were constantly harassed by authorities. (Irony - the US's approach hardly fixed the issue).

But is it OK to risk punishing a few innocent people if it greatly reduces the amount of suffering caused by crime?

Japan has a conviction rate of 99.8%. arrested and convicted is pretty much the same thing over there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...

Not sure why you were downvoted. From the last paragraph:

"I spent a total of 35 days here. The first arrest was 3 days of processing, the initial 10 days followed by the 10 days extension for a total of 23 days before my case was dropped. But the same time my case was dropped my accusers found a another reason to issue a second arrest keeping me there for an additional 12 days!

Both cases were ultimately dropped and the second arrest was essentially tied to the first and shouldn’t have even been possible."

The author acknowledges that it still ruins people's lives and is completely unfair.