As long as the justice system is a profitable business, it will never change. Many members of law enforcement I do believe have good intentions but get drowned out by the power hungry, money hungry greed that rules our justice system. Lawyers cost beyond the average person's pay grade. It's easier to take plea deals then risk facing the higher penalties in a full trial, whether innocent or not. In some cases, the crime someone ia accused of is no longer innocent until provwn guilty. It is more you're guilty until you can prove you're innocent and it's just our word against your's. Large corporations pay prison systems millions for prison labor, yet these prisonera certainly are not being paid minimum wage... if anything at all, it is a dollar or 2... and that is if they are lucky. Plea deals will always be made to look good for the accused so that money continues to be pumped into slave labor from prisons... even if it means puahing innocent people into it.
Like politics, we should get money out of the equation.
They cry about guns but plea bargain down any crimes dealing with felons being caught with a gun. They don't enforce the laws they have yet want more. They are nincompoops. Also people who have committed murder they let out on a relatively low bond. Some of these just turn around and kill someone else. This happens in prison a lot where a lifer kills some other prisoner or a guard. What are they going to do, give him life? The whole system is a joke. If you are rich you get a nice comfy cell away from the rift raft - think of the people like Lori Laughlin who got hardly any time in jail while some poor schmuck gets a couple of years for peeing in an alley.
Crooked as the day is long.
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It is broken, look at what is happening in San Francisco, won't even charge or hold real obvious criminals.
It is broken in so many ways, around here... the phone call your allowed from jail. It is a COLLECT call... good luck calling anyone collect, most cell phones or internet Voip phones won't work with collect, only old fashion home phone lines work with that.
How's that for exercising your right to call someone?
It is a business, many prosecuting attorney's don't care if someone is innocent or guilty, their entire job is to win.
On the flip side, many defense attorney's think the same way.
It is rare but possible to find defense attorney's that won't take a case if they believe you actually did it and it is also rare to find a prosecutors who won't charge you if they think you didn't do it.
The system tends to care more, the more serious the charge is about rights, the lower they are the less they care about rights. You can't even get a public defender for most low end stuff, if you do get one they stink. They basically say dress nice, look sorry and see about getting the lowest sentence possible.
I've also seen cases where the court financially threatens the defendant when they ask for a jury trial, rather than a bench trial. Telling them they have to pay X amount of dollars for that if they want it. Trying to discourage people from doing jury trials for minor stuff. A innocent person should not go bankrupt to defend themselves, or if you have no money you should still get a good high quality public defender not some over loaded person barely has 5 seconds for you.
A couple of idea's to fix it though could be no deals allowed, let the evidence show it and get more jury trials. Like the constitution says, trial by jury without making the defendant pay extra for it.
If someone does hire an attorney and gets not-guilty the system should reimburse them for their legal fees (currently seems to only happen in civil matters not criminal.) They should also reimburse them for missed work.
The real problem though is soon as someone gets arrested many people think they did it and must prove their innocence's.
The last fix off the top of my head is to say, all suspects have their identity concealed or not announced until they get CONVICTED. Best way to get a fair trial, must like how victims have their name not released. Stop releasing names of people who just got arrested, wait until they get convicted.
It's corrupt as hell. Starting with the cops who are legally allowed to lie while doing their so called job. Then the DA who lets cops skate and slide by default. Then the jails which shake down taxpayers for billions of dollars. Where corrupt jailers often get away with torturing and killing. To the death penalty which, as we saw recently, is often purposely fked up to cause as much terror and pain as humanly possible. To the 13th amendment exception clause with legalizes slavery if a person has been convicted of a crime. Read it. Slavery is literally legal in the constitution even today.
I think law enforcement officials are the biggest criminals out there. Personally speaking from my own experience with my own dad, he's now a retired police officer. He physically assaulted me growing up, and thanks to the police man Bro-code/ brotherhood... if police came over, he would just say I was being dramatic and fucking up the house myself or strangling myself, etc.. they would leave regardless of evidence. Then last year, a judge sided with him against me, for my son's guardianship Regardless of the perjury he committed, and false allegations or slander I proved wrong. He's one of those cops that murdered one or two people, was sent home on paid leave then just came back to work as if nothing happened
Oh, I hate it, but for the polar opposite reason.
Many criminals are obviously guilty, there's irrefutable evidence that they're guilty, they admit to being guilty, and all they get are slap after slap on the wrist. Some people get released for pretty much no justifiable reason after committing heinous crimes like rape, murder, etc.
And now it's being used as a political weapon too. Burnt down a couple buildings in a BLM riot? Oh well, the DA will not press charges, you're free to go. Some wahoos stormed the capital? The FBI will hunt you down and arrest you just for being a lookalike of one of these clowns.
It's not the best in my opinion. But I think it's this way because of our culture. For example things such as an open or luxury prison system, or no life sentences would never work in the States.
But I DO agree there are certain crimes they should be more lenient on.
Too many communist that rail road people just as they are doing to doctor that have been told not to writ e exemption for COVID 19 or their license would be pulled not a well known fact but of the millions of people who filed how many have you heard of being granted even for children. My grand daughter from birth had brain cancer 2xs. High dose medicine Mono Cloanal antibodies experimental perserved in a radio active suspension 3F8 Experimental plus a genetic problem plus she is an Epiletic Gran moll. I do not know what will happen with an untested so called vaccine that causes heart problems in children The courts just run over our constitution to cover the lies that our leaders push as the truth Im peach liar Dictator Bide and Giggles Harris
Like any justice system, the US justice system is imperfect, but overall, it's pretty good.
Yes, some innocent people get wrongly convicted, and some guilty people are declared not guilty at their trial. Overall, the justice system gets things mostly right, and there are procedures in place (appeals, for example) to try to correct things when a mistake is made.
In the US, a person is innocent until proven guilty, and has the right to a fair trial by their peers. Not all countries give the accused those rights.
It needs to be reworked from the ground up including how prisons and jail are structured
It sucks, but is more fair than most other justice systems in the world. The biggest problems in the justice system are how the courts work and the attorneys. Police arrest people, but that arrest does not carry much weight compared to what the courts can decide. All an arrest means is there is probable cause to suspect you committed a crime, it is not saying you are guilty. However, the way attorneys makes their money (especially defense attorneys) prevents them from truly acting in the best interests of the client (defendant).
It is rigged so the t the rich and connected always skate. Look at the Biden crime family. They are a prime example of people who peddle influence and take bribes and betrayed their country.
Lot of people take a plea bargain because they can't afford a good attorney and don't want to risk a public defender.
If you can't afford a decent lawyer don't commit crime.
It sucks so bad that when it actually follows the law by the books it's a pleasant surprise.
simpler times...
As flawed as the system is it still is the best system. Innocent until proven guilty is the concept but that is changing. Many other systems are opposite, you are guilty and need to prove your innocence.
I mean it's not perfect. I'm not a fan of any system where judges are appointed by the government of the day.
It's a system that caters to the rich and demonizes the poor
its a mostly reasonable system. it gets politicized sometimes. we need better protection for the accused in situations where the trial gets national attention like mandatory jury sequestering.
The US Justice system provides the best justice money can buy. No money? No Justice!
its been perverted by liberals and is too easy on blacks now in the name of wokeness even though they claim otherwise. The biggest victim of this is blacks
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