Re: Starts to get sinister:
Real offenders getting let off because you can no longer prove beyond reasonable doubt who put the evidence there.
The best possible outcome is that Blackstone's ratio finally wins over the witch hunters. It's a pity when the genuinely guilty can't be convicted, but we can only approach universal justice asymptotically, and it's still better than letting the innocent be framed.
The French learned during the Terror that the police state, let off the leash, will eventually bite its handlers, as have others at other historical moments. Unfortunately that sort of lesson only sticks so long.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
