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It's remarkable how the US maintains the fiction of legal equality while having what are de facto parallel legal systems depending on how much money you have. If you're wealthy enough almost any charge is beatable, if your middle class you probably have a decent shot at beating charges but you'll have to dip into your pocket, and if you're poor then often you live in the equivalent of a third world kleptocracy, complete with a massively corrupt police force that treats you as a source of income and an archipeligo of (often privatized, since it's "Murica) gulags where you can look forward to stamping license plates or working in a call centre when you're not busy being raped or conscripted into one of the numerous and powerful prison gangs. It's like somebody created 21st century America by stacking the society from 'Gattaca' on top of a foundation made from Robocop and the Running Man.
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Vermain posted:I struggle to think of a place where this isn't the case with how modern legal systems are established. Any justice system is easy to manipulate when you have money and going to prison will tend to suck anywhere in the world for most people but Americas penal system still stands out in terms of how awful and corrupt it is. For instance, every existing police force has some issues with corruption, but I don't think most first world police forces have been blatantly re-purposed into a money grab from the racialized underclass to quite the extent that many towns in America have done.
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