Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.