Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks?

Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Quite the opposite. A police state would hide information on who was arrested and under what charges. This is one of the painful bits of living in a democracy.

  Are public mugshots necessary? I can imagine quite a bit of corruption were they withheld. For example, search my common name and you’ll get dozens of hits in just about any sizeable jurisdiction. With my face shown, you know if it’s really me or not.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  America probably. Very often people accused of crimes are basically labeled guilty through news media and posting their faces all over.

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• spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jail rosters are generally public information. I live in a fairly blue state with a lot of prisons (Colorado) and can look up any prisoner in the state system online.

  Part of the thinking is that if it were secretive, the government could just disappear people (rightfully a concern with ICE right now) without anyone knowing.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t see how it prevents anyone from getting disappeared. All they have to do is not add them to the database.

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    • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, any law is only as good as people following it (and enforcement for violations)

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• KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It doesn’t. The naming and shaming is claimed to be a deterrent. But the juicy gossip is too loved by the law-abiding folk for the elected Sheriff to consider not doing it.

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