I've spent my whole life here as well and have ended up in jail because of bureaucracy. I lost a fair amount of of money and missed several days of work, becaus

I've spent my whole life here as well and have ended up in jail because of bureaucracy. I lost a fair amount of of money and missed several days of work, because of this. The situation was that I got a minor speeding ticket in another state. Paid the ticket. State didn't update their records and it got marked as not paid. My state arrests me for failure to appear in court, suspends my license, threatened to impound my car, etc... I did nothing wrong in this case. The only way I was able to get it fixed was to talk to the director of the department of transportation for my state. I got lucky basically. By the way, I'm a white middle aged male, so this isn't anything to do with race. I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing, just that the issue is systemic and not something that's merely cultural. The US justice system is extremely heavy handed and fairly deficient.