I have said that there are crimes which are not identified as crimes, and there are crimes which are not treated for what they are. In the latter case, some examples are damage to the national infrastructure, or the poaching of endangered wildlife. That represents more than the book value of some copper wires, and more than the replacement cost of some animals. With this in mind, a reader in Europe wrote that my description of court proceedings here "made for incredible reading". Here was a case where at least ten professionals uselessly invested time and effort, because someone (my guess: the investigator) lost a critical piece of evidence, and it all fell apart -- over a period of most of a year. If you ask me, that deserves more than "whoops" status. If I held up ten professionals on our main road for several hours, I'd likely be in a police holding cell by the end of it. OBSERVATION: At the moment -- which is more than one can tell in one post -- the accountability that there is in such a situation does not work. The incident in itself says as much.
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