Credit: Vitalii Vodolazskyi/Adobe Stock FOI FYI: Progress Made Against Burying Unsolved Crimes in 'Open Investigations'
Associate Justice Raheem Mullins, who wrote for the high court, noted that eventually, cold cases benefit from a fresh pair of eyes, or even "millions of eyes" in our age of the Internet and crowdsourcing. For all the cases where accidental release of facts derailed a prosecution, there are likely as many where more open public information helped solve the matter.
October 02, 2024 at 06:58 PM
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As long as history remembers, the powerful have feared those below them will learn what they know. Hence trade guilds' secrecy, fear of slaves' literacy, women's education… knowledge being power, the powerful aren't crazy about sharing it.
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