Yes, I agree. Rather than talking about "tough-on-innocence statistics", we should discuss what concrete procedural reforms would help people like Ms. Smith avoid being mistreated by the justice system.

One reason we're not doing that, I suspect, is that it's hard to figure out what such a reform would look like. What specific additional step could the police have taken to determine that she didn't operate this account, without access to her private knowledge that she's never been to Arkansas and doesn't have the type of phone that was used to create it?