Economic Meltdown (seconda parte)

[Jester]

Granted, but these are not all that exceptional. Google "Arrested Sidewalk Chalk". I'm afraid that like an iceberg, the only unjust arrests we get to glimpse are the few that poke into the 24 hour news cycle. The injustice in the system only begins in the arbitrariness of arrest, it extends into the arbitrariness of investigation, prosecution and conviction. You see the real injustice applied when you begin to analyze the racial and socioeconomic demographics. I don't believe we want a system where when the State is against you, you invariably end up incarcerated.

If you want the story of the state against its citizens, the story you want is the drug war. That's what puts otherwise harmless (and usually black or hispanic) people in jail. The number of people imprisoned, or even arrested, for these other trivial things like eating fries and writing with chalk is pretty small, although obviously higher anywhere they use the "broken windows" theory of policing. Stupid rules, stupid results.

-Jester