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smallmancontrovyesterday at 11:19 PM3 repliesview on HN

A few years ago, one of my coworkers was arrested for a domestic violence complaint. Looking into his case, I found an extremely specific lurid description of the allegations -- and then I found the same lurid description copy/pasted to every other person recently arrested for the same crime. I'm probably getting the specific terms wrong, but I did click through to see it on a government website, because my first suspicion was the aggregator, but no, the police just had a boilerplate story full of specifics which could not possibly apply to each and every person they carelessly slapped it onto. This absolutely blew my mind at the time, but it fits with smaller subsequent observations. In any case: a double digit percentage of institutional failure does not upset my priors about how carefully the police operate.


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assimpleaspossitoday at 1:42 AM

The complaint would be by the courts, not the police.

xstas1today at 1:12 AM

Can you put some of the text in a comment here?

gerdesjtoday at 12:07 AM

Why did you "look into the case of your coworker"?

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