17 October 2014 (21:46 UTC-07 Tango 16 October 2014)/22 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/25 Mehr 1393/24 Jia-Xu 4712

NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reporting that the use of public security cameras in Japan are actually resulting in increased numbers of false arrests!

Lazy police are arresting innocent people and detaining them for as long as several weeks (one innocent man was held for 300 days!), until a more thorough observation of the video was made.  Police making the arrests are only watching part of the videos before they jump to conclusions about who did the crime.

One woman told how she was held for seven days, and was at the point of confessing to the crime because she thought it would get her out of jail.  This proves that even psychological stress can cause innocent people to confess to crimes they never committed!   Higher ranking police finally watched the entire security camera video and concluded that a man had committed the crime the woman was accused of.   The crime was committed right before she walked into camera view, the arresting police missed the earlier part of the video because they were fast forwarding!  It also helped that physical evidence was found.

Another big problem is that police are not connecting video time codes with the time that the crimes took place, which would help stop false arrests.

Apparently in Japan security camera video is now being handled by police as tangible evidence, which it is not.

Many innocent people wind up in court before they’re finally found innocent.

This proves that police are either lazy, incompetent or criminals themselves!