How is someone that hasn't been charged, let alone convicted of a crime a criminal?

P.S. While your comment was ignorant, it certainly wasn't uncivil.  And I thought that it would take much more than just one vote of "uncivil" for a comment to be blocked.  I also find it strange that we only review comments on DP and not the entire Civil universe, as that's a very narrow focus, both with in terms of what we see and what Civil gets from a limited number of commenters.  I don't mind doing their machine learning for them but this method seems strange if nothing else.