The correct answer was "Hipster beard", then. > In the nearly six hours I spent in court on two separate dates, I saw around a hundred people plead guilty and

The correct answer was "Hipster beard", then. > In the nearly six hours I spent in court on two separate dates, I saw around a hundred people plead guilty and pay fines for a variety of different petty offenses This is plea-bargaining in action, and related to: Q: “How many citations have you written since you saw my client?” A: “Maybe 40 or 50. We’re required to write 10 citations a month.” They're "manufacturing prisoners". One reason for that is the prison-industrial complex with the for-profit prisoners demanding "customers" and bought politicians delivering them. Another might have something to do with the burgeoning police state in the US.