Exonerations Increasing !!!!

For years, Investigators and District Attorney (D.A) have used many differnt procedures to prosecute criminals. D.A's and Police dept used procedures such as: polygraphys, photo lineup, drive bys, psychological manipulation, sketch drawings, confessions and much more. DallasMorningNews reporters Steve McGonigle and Jennifer Emily (both focuses on Dallas County Crimes) have been ananlyzing recent criminal convictions and realized that DNA testing helped 18 of 19 Dallas County convictions. These DNA testing proved that these convicts were innocent the entire time.
The Unknown author of this article, opinionated that if police dept don't start cracking on a proper procedures to convict a suspect, the States should get involved. JudgeBarbaraHervey began over the summer to sort out breakdowns in justice. Looking over cases and just like D.A Craig Watkins who is currently reviewing 40 different penalty cases in Texas to be sure we have the right guy.
So far Police Dept are still currently using the "drive by" method on picking out a suspect. Drive by is meant for witnesses to be driving past the suspect in a squad car and then to point out "Yes that is him". Within moments the suspect is handcuffed and brought into the station for immediate questioning. Its methods like these that causes society to know that its just so easy to point out a person and state that they committed the crime. A 2005 sudy by Samuel Gross and his colleagues counted 340 exonerations between 1989 and 2003 and notes that these convicts spent more than a total of 3400 years in prison which averages out to about 10 years per person. The Innocence Project that specializes in exonerations via DNA evidence named 7 major causes for wrong convictions. 1. Eyewitness identifications - Research shows that the human mind is not like a tape recorder, we can't rewind our minds or play our minds exactly the way we first see it. This is why it is important to make sure that everything must be correct visual facts. 2. Unreliable scientific evidence. 3. False confessions- sometimes convicts are pressured into confessing even though they did not commit the crime cause they've been tortured or lied to stating they would get less time. 4. Misconduct by forensic scientists- they are not always 100 % sure. 5. Government misconduct - like Peter Limone. 6. Perjury by informants and snitches- Snitchers who snitch for their own benefit. 7. Bad Lawyering- Lawyers who fail to do proper work such as failing asleep during trials, fail to do thorough investigating. So far with all these exonerations, some might get compensated for their time served and some might not.

I think that with technology these days, we are a bit more advance and could hopefully decrease wrongful convictions. No one should serve time like these men, for a crime they did not commit. Its a big no-no to just do random drive bys or single mug shots to identify suspects. As a "procedural" court system, we should have proper procedures in convicting suspects with hard proof evidence. After this whole time my belief was that the court knew what they were doing, apparently not.