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>Our judicial system is for chewing up poor people Hyperbolic statement with absolutely no details about this situation? Seems legit.

• atom-morgan 11y ago
  The last time I was in court (two weeks ago) it was _filled_ with poor people for non-violent victimless crimes. And I was there for something that is NOT a law, written in plain English at DMV.org. But the cop wrote me a ticket so I have to waste countless hours of my life dealing with their shit.
  • vfdfv 11y ago
    Same deal if you stand in line at a car impound lot. I once got my car towed on a snowy night, one of ~1000 other cars towed that night in Minneapolis (on Christmas Eve no less!). The line at the impound lot was filled with poorer (looking) people, especially Somali, Hispanic, and Asian people for whom English was not their first language. My dad drove me there and stood in line with me, and I could tell it had a profound effect on his outlook. My dad has always been quite liberal, but being a rich, older white guy living in the suburbs, he hadn't seen firsthand some of the more subtle ways that poor / minority people are disadvantaged by the system.
  • dysfunction 11y ago
    Are you saying that something is not a law because DMV.org says so, or that the cop thought something was a law because DMV.org said so? DMV.org is not a government website.