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I wanted to say, this is a point one could try to argue in countries where e.g. the fine for speed tickets is proportional to the income, but in the US there is
by atoav 4y ago
I wanted to say, this is a point one could try to argue in countries where e.g. the fine for speed tickets is proportional to the income, but in the US there is just a lack of hard evidence to support that statement (and a lot of evidence that supports the opposite of the statment).
The way I perceive it the US justice system is too prone to be toyed around with by people with money. A lot of the stuff people pull off in the US would land you in contempt of court if you just tried it elsewhere on the world.
Innocent until proven guily, I get all of that, but what money factually buys you in the US is ridiculous
- veidr 4y agoAlso, while we learn “innocent until proven guilty” in elementary school in the US, it doesn’t apply to poor people. Under our peculiar pay-to-play “cash bail” system, it only applies to those who can afford the fee. For the rest of the people it’s very much the opposite: stay imprisoned (and lose your job etc) until not proven guilty. To avoid this, many people take a loan from a “bail bondsman” that comes with a service fee of around 10% of the bail —- which might easily be tens of thousands of dollars and leave a poor person in crippling debt for years or forever — regardless of guilt.