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So in 2011, rather than looking at embedded structural issues, including the way black communities are policed – especially in the light of the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham – the response was to hand out massive penalties to those convicted, in order to dissuade anyone else from taking to the streets in future protests.
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Indeed, spurred by high rates of recidivism (the tendency of a previously convicted criminal to return to prior criminal behaviour despite punishment or imprisonment), some governments have even instituted the policy of banking DNA samples from all convicted criminals in order to facilitate the identification of perpetrators of future crimes.
Likewise, the government has bargained with convicted spies in order to learn just what secrets they had divulged and for information about enemy operatives and tradecraft.
City of London Police revealed last month that they had conducted hundreds of prison interviews with convicted fraudsters in order to learn about their techniques because they were "behind the curve" in tackling threats from cyber operations.
Ironically, this is happening at the very time the Pentagon is actively recruiting really serious convicted felons in order to keep its numbers up.
He poses as a convict in order to experience the manifold horrors firsthand and later encounters resistance when he tries to implement much-needed reforms.
In a sense, this hypocrisy mirrors the fault of Angelo, who prosecutes Claudio unjustly even after "weighing" himself against the convict in order to prevent Claudio from returning to complain on his sister's behalf.
In Brady's case there is no claim that the prosecutor threatened prosecution on a charge not justified by the evidence or that the trial judge threatened Brady with a harsher sentence if convicted after trial in order to induce him to plead guilty.
"As part of this process, over the coming weeks, CPS Areas will be contacting representatives of the defendants - or defendants themselves as necessary - convicted in these cases in order to provide them with a disclosure pack - details of material which they may consider undermines the conviction in a specific case". In September, several cases involving evidence from Mr Mahmood were halted.
"There's a regrettable suspicion that police officers involved in convicting the Birmingham Six lied in order to get those convictions.
"He was tried and convicted, and he drank poison in order to maintain the respect for law and order in society".
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