Hey, CG. We should take on those "these rulings are helping criminals" people. The conflict being one between "I'd rather let thousands of innocent people get convicted than let one guilty man go free" and "I'd like to have as few innocent people be wrongly punished as possible."

You suggest that both sides look at the (Most likely metaphorical) camera and apologize to all unintentional victims everywhere who suffered the consequences for their beliefs' being withheld by the law. You, the lenient, America-hatin', Terrorist-lovin' Liberal apologize to the families of any victim whose murderer got acquitted in court because of your naive and idealistic views. Basically that the murderer

And, in return, the conservative has to apologize to, basically, everyone in Prison (or Gitmo) who was convicted wrongly, and their families, and to all the extra innocent people who would be convicted if their strict policies became law.

The rules go that you may state any justification (that is you may defend your beliefs and explain the logic. In fact, both sides should try to just that.) in your apology as long as you do not try to excuse your system's short failing or deny that people have been hurt by them/"criminals" have escaped. You may for instance, say things like:

"To the victim, from the very bottom of my heart: I am sorry that our system has holes. Holes through which the person who killed you [the victim] managed to slither through. If our system were harsher and quicker to judge, maybe the culprit would not even have a single escape route from the moment the police made the arrest. But sometimes we do get the wrong guy. And if we convict the wrong guy, then not only do we fail to catch the real killer (which is very bad in of itself), but we make the situation worse by having not just having one victim (you). I know the situation where you get killed and the bad guy gets off Scott free is horrible, but I don't think you'd be any happier with you dying, the killer escaping, AND some luckless smuck who never did anything wrong going to prison-taking the heat while the killer laughs at us all even harder.

And I can only imagine that a world where the government can grab anyone off the streets and never have to tell anyone why would only make the situation worse. The system isn't perfect, but what its ultimate failing is, in my eyes, is that we couldn't prevent you from being killed in the first place. And of all the thing I am sorry for, that is the one thing I am *really* sorry for."