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Of 1,563 deaths in police custody since 1990, we have zero convictions".
The IPCC has investigated 460 deaths following police contact; these investigations have led – astonishingly – to zero convictions of officers.
There has been 1,518 deaths in police custody and zero convictions since 1990 and that shows you that something is wrong.
A Nov. 6 news analysis in Haaretz called the case "the attorney general's shame" for exposing "the grand failure" of his tenure, namely, "zero convictions of public figures" — as though a prosecutor's effectiveness should be measured by the number of scalps dangling from his belt.
The collapse of institutions meant to serve and protect citizens – from the criminal-justice system (which is so dysfunctional that in 2008 there were zero trials and zero convictions in the 179 murders committed that year) to our hospitals (many of which are still not open after Katrina) – is making death all too familiar and comfortable.
He was also concerned that between 2002 and 2003, the Academy's sexual assault scandal involved over 100 reports and yet resulted in zero convictions.
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Here's more from Carney: "Unless the crime required bankers to know they were being reckless--in which case it would deter almost no-one and result in approximately zero convictions--it would wind up punishing bankers for just being wrong".
Twenty mobsters were convicted on conspiracy charges, and all twenty convictions were reversed on appeal.
Almost half of the sample (49.7%) had previously been convicted and one third of the participants had received between two and five convictions before the actual sentence (Table 2).
Police point out they secured two convictions.
But he had only two convictions, one for a misdemeanor.
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