NEW YORK TIMES: The Chinese Communist Party has demanded an end to arrest and conviction goals for the police, prosecutors and courts, state-run news media said Wednesday.
The order to end secretive performance standards was part of the government’s efforts to reduce the pressure for guilty verdicts. The pressure has led to a nearly 100 percent rate of convictions in criminal trials — and with that miscarriages of justice that have been exposed by a string of overturned convictions, including one in which the defendant was executed for murder…
“At a meeting on Tuesday, the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Communist Party, which oversees the police, prosecutors and judges, demanded that officials “firmly abolish unreasonable assessment goals for numbers of criminal detentions, arrest rates, indictment rates, and rates of guilty verdicts and case conclusions,” Xinhua said… (more)
EDITOR: China is taking constructive and responsible steps towards becoming the world’s greatest nation at some future date. The USA will likely be part of an equally strong alliance with NATO, Canada, and perhaps Indian and / or Japan.
