Hear That Sound? It's Feces Hitting the Fan.

[kandrathe]

One of the changing factors in American justice (since this sentiment is directly stated to be an American idea) is that citizens are relying more and more on the State to provide the primary, if not sole, custodial duty of protecting the innocent from dangerous criminals.

The idea of letting a guilty man go free rather than risk an innocent man stay imprisoned once carried the understanding that the wolf was not exactly being let loose among the sheep— an armed populace learned in self-defense and strong-willed enough to stand against brigandry meant that the unrepentant guilty would likely get their due, one way or another.
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Agreed. But, I think the State is also less tolerant of citizens standing against brigandry.