Katia Winter Quotes
I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.
Radish, Christina. "Katia Winter Talks BANSHEE CHAPTER, the True Events That Inspired the Film, SLEEPY HOLLOW, and More." Collider, 9 Jan. 2014.
This interesting historical quotation illustrates the fact that in almost every American generation there are those who believe that society has gone too far in protecting the rights of criminal suspects at the expense of law and order in the general society. This is nothing new. This is a classic argument given by those who would deny a defendant the Constitutional protection against self-incrimination. The belief that an innocent man has nothing to fear from the police is refuted by the many cases of innocent men being convicted by evidence they have given in the belief that they were innocent, and served long jail sentences only to later be proved by DNA evidence that they could not possibly have been guilty. Since Nott’s day, society has not only found many cases where honest error was made by the police or prosecutors, but many where there was venal prosecutorial misconduct and defendants were jailed even though the authorities were aware of evidence of innocence and kept it secret. There have been a number of these cases where a defendant was on death row and about to be executed when it was found he was innocent. Probably there have been men wrongly executed. See {629444} for a probable example.
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New York City police are generally better than most in training. However, by far most murder investigations have at least one police and district attorney error and often many more. The rules, procedures, and protocols are quite complex, and police are often not adequately trained. Most departments are understaffed and the caseload is much too heavy. There is huge political and public pressure on murder cases so police often make mistakes to respond rapidly for the demand for information. The way the laws are written in almost all states, the police officers are not legally responsible when they do make errors even if it results in an innocent person going to jail and the real criminal still being at large. Generally, except in a few cases, the courts will not throw a case out just because police or district attorneys do not follow required procedures, and in some departments there is a good guy vs. bad guy mentality and there is a norm of just getting the bad guys off the streets and not worrying about all the details of investigating alternative possibilities and this results sometimes in illegally hiding these from the defense. Evaluations of this kind are rarely performed, in that most departments see no advantage to uncovering and publicizing the mistakes of the past. This study is also used by many who oppose the death penalty to illustrate the large error possibility with capital cases where execution precludes uncovering the errors and mistakes.
Katia Winter is a Swedish-born British actress. She is best known for her roles as Nadia on the Showtime series Dexter (2012), Katrina Crane on the Fox series Sleepy Hollow (2013–15), Freydis Eriksdottir in The CW series Legends of Tomorrow (2017–18) and Gwen Karlsson in the CBS series Blood & Treasure (2019–present).
