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Just wait. If yours isn't already as bad as ours, then just wait.
by bradknowles 7y ago
Just wait.
If yours isn't already as bad as ours, then just wait.
- jdietrich 7y agoI'm sure that's comforting to believe, but it just isn't true. America's criminal justice system is uniquely dysfunctional in a multitude of ways, best exemplified by your extraordinarily high incarceration rate. There is no law of nature that dictates that all criminal justice systems inexorably deteriorate into tyranny, it's just a specific and fixable set of policy failures. The iniquities of pre-trial detention and cash bail are fixable. Racially biased arrest, conviction and sentencing rates are fixable. Needlessly punitive sentences and an over-reliance on incarceration are fixable. Miscarriages of justice due to pseudoscientific forensic evidence and under-funded public defenders are fixable.