Only when people are not just executed by cops because they dared look too black or homeless or whatever (so many more cases of police killings that any European country when adjusted for population that it's amazing).
And even then, the due process is full of batshit-crazy aspects, from prosecutorial blackmail deals, to "three-strikes" BS.
And let's not even get into prison conditions, use of solitary confinement, rape as "joke", private prisons and prison labor, and so on...
Or the fact that it's the only (or close) western country to still have the death penalty...
And that's for official prisons. Now let's add the various "sites"...
>Only when people are not just executed by cops because they dared look too black or homeless or whatever
These atrocities are an exceedingly tiny minority out of millions of yearly police interactions.
>And even then, the due process is full of batshit-crazy aspects, from prosecutorial blackmail deals, to "three-strikes" BS
The system is not perfect, but the point is that in contrast to authoritarian China, it is generally not abused to suppress political dissent and U.S. citizens have rights to due process and representation in the legal system that do not exist in China.
Only when people are not just executed by cops because they dared look too black or homeless or whatever (so many more cases of police killings that any European country when adjusted for population that it's amazing).
And even then, the due process is full of batshit-crazy aspects, from prosecutorial blackmail deals, to "three-strikes" BS.
And let's not even get into prison conditions, use of solitary confinement, rape as "joke", private prisons and prison labor, and so on...
Or the fact that it's the only (or close) western country to still have the death penalty...
And that's for official prisons. Now let's add the various "sites"...