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Old 02-03-2008, 00:50   #14
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Re: not enough evidence,doubtful if a crime commited.

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Originally Posted by Rosencrantz View Post
The fact that the police are using the word "evidence" in that sentence implies a legal connotation rather than a literal one. A better interpretation might be "they have no damning, watertight evidence submittable in a court of law that a crime has been committed by a particular individual". They're not saying that they can't see that the two people in front of them are angry and hurt victims of crime, they're saying that from a legal perspective there's not enough to incriminate any specific individual.

To be fair, it does sound like a fairly vague case and I can understand why it would make you angry. Maybe I'm too much of an apologist for the establishment.
From what Cashy has told us of the incident it seems to me that there is ample evidence available that at least three crimes have been commited , two assaults (one causing injury) and the attempted theft of the lady's handbag , there might not be enough evidence available to secure a conviction , but there is enough to make it a reportable crime and as such it be noted and shown in the crime stats for that particular area as an unsolved crime ,
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