When juries decide things badly, we hear abut it in the news.
When a murder suspect is found guilty...even though the evidence clearly shows otherwise.
The problem, I believe, is how juries are picked. Government is picking them and government is never as good as the free market
Ultimately, crappy jurors are being selected.
How do you solve that?
There are two things that need to be done:
1.) Privatize the courts. Have a corporation man the staff and prosecutors. This will create an incentive to do a good job.
2.) Have being a juror a full or part-time job where they get rated and reviewed.
Let's cover the second point first.
We all know how bad taxis are, but the people didn't have much of a choice, untill Lyft and Uber came around.
While people complain
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They have to deliver a quality product to be used again in the future. Or they'll get a bad review.
This idea applies to everything we spend money on, including government services.
If you have people compete to be jurors and open their decisions to public ratings, you'll have better, competent jurors.
You could keep these rates and a juror's written explanation for their decision on some easy to access website like Wikipedia.
Many will say you can't privatize the courts.
Well, I would say you don't have to privatize the whole thing. Just privatize part of it and you'll see huge benefits.
Privatize the staff, the prosecutor, the public defender, and let the judges act as monitors instead of "God."
You can still have the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, judical review, etc.
But with a private courtroom, at least taking care of the lower courts, it'll be more efficient and effective and more pressure for companies to do a good/fair job with the legal system.
Photo credit, in order: Jeff Kubina, NASA Hq Photo, Wally Gobetz, Maia Weinstock, Lyft and Uber Logos, IIP Photo Archive
Now, I'm sure there are a lot of questions about the details and different