The United States alone among Western nations polices its police by excluding evidence.
Evidence
The United States is unique in its reliance on the exclusionary rule as a means of dealing with police misconduct. Great Britain, Canada, and other common-law countries admit all reliable evidence at trial but permit suits for damages against police officers alleged to have committed illegal acts. No civil-law country disciplines its police by excluding illegally seized evidence. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1834
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to comparative-criminal-procedure material and debates over whether exclusion or damages better deters police misconduct. — connects to: Visible surveillance makes subjects police themselves without any force — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315; The West produced its own internal others while excluding non-Europeans. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 524; Officials suppress their own suspicions to avoid confronting systemic abuse. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 573
Broader Connections
- Officials suppress their own suspicions to avoid confronting systemic abuse.
#qualifies(1.00) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 573 - Visible surveillance makes subjects police themselves without any force
#complicates(0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315 - The West produced its own internal others while excluding non-Europeans.
#complicates(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 524