{"id":8743,"date":"2025-04-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8743"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:19:15","slug":"the-best-system-is-still-not-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-best-system-is-still-not-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BEST SYSTEM IS STILL NOT PERFECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having spent most of my adult life working in the criminal justice system \u2013 variously as arresting officer, police prosecutor, expert witness often working for the defense \u2013 I find truth in the common saying that \u201cThe United States has the best justice system in the world but it\u2019s still not perfect.\u201dIn support of that statement, I offer <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/free-society\/spring-2025\/blindfolded-juries-coerced-convictions-why-prosecutors-often-win-trials\" target=\"_blank\">this, from our friends at Cato Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, your comments are invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent most of my adult life working in the criminal justice system \u2013 variously as arresting officer, police prosecutor, expert witness often working for the defense \u2013 I find truth in the common saying that \u201cThe United States has the best justice system in the world but it\u2019s still not perfect.\u201dIn support of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8744,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions\/8744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}