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If someone gave you that answer for statistics you were asking for you would have a field day.

 

You're a joke.  Reading this thread is sad.

 

You're the joke.

 

How would there be any statistics on number of innocent people being arrested?  There's no omniscient source to say if someone is innocent or guilty.  Even people who go to jail, and people who plead guilty aren't always guilty.  


But here's some numbers for you since you are so obsessed with them:


 

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How prevalent is the phenomenon of innocent people pleading guilty? The few criminologists who have thus far investigated the phenomenon estimate that the overall rate for convicted felons as a whole is between 2 percent and 8 percent. The size of that range suggests the imperfection of the data; but let us suppose that it is even lower, say, no more than 1 percent. When you recall that, of the 2.2 million Americans in prison, over 2 million are there because of plea bargains, we are then talking about an estimated 20,000 persons, or more, who are in prison for crimes to which they pleaded guilty but did not in fact commit.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives...ad-guilty/


And that's only counting people who plead guilty.

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