A lot of times in Media, Television, Movies, Games etc. you’ll see this leader of a huge crime organization where its shown that the government or law enforcement of that universe obviously know that they’re involved in illegal activity, but they “don’t have enough evidence to put them in jail” This is where my question comes in, what stops this government from just doing it anyway? If they obviously know they’re evil than why can’t they just stop them anyway, Its not like keeping them out of jail will be MORE helpful for the world?
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Because you can’t just arrest, prosecute, convict, and imprison someone based on vaguely “being a bad guy” – or at least not in countries with the rule of law. In the U.S. The Constitution and lots of laws and Supreme Court decisions are very clear on that.
The person has to have committed a specific crime as defined in a law somewhere, and there has to be actual evidence that that person committed that specific crime – enough evidence to convince a jury that person is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
So maybe John Doe is well-known in the neighborhood as being a drug dealer. So what? It’s not a crime for people to believe you’re a drug dealer. There has to be actual, concrete evidence that you are selling drugs in a way that violates a specific law. Actual, real evidence would be something like being caught on camera selling drugs, or the testimony of an undercover police officer who bought drugs directly from John Doe along with a lab report that shows the substance he bought was an illegal drug.
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