We don’t do enough for the wrongfully accused.
I’m not talking about wrongful conviction, which is on a whole other level, but people who were accused by a liar, or overzealous officer, etc.
The threshold to get arrested is extremely low. If I cut hand mowing the grass, then call the police to to tell them my wife did something to me, in my area one person must leave in cuffs for DA. So, I could get my wife arrested on that scenario alone.
Once she’s arrested, she has to hire an attorney, her name will appear in public, she may lose her job. and then she has to wait in anguish for months on end.
Lawsuits are similar. it takes very little to at least force someone to hire an attorney. but at least there’s recourse with demanding attorneys fees due to frivolous lawsuits.
And even if the case is shoddy and dismissed, you still have the arrest on your record. How do these wrongfully accused people move on and get jobs? Dates?
If there’s substantial evidence, it’s going to get a conviction. But any random Bozo can get you arrested and it’s stuck with you for life.