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In major cities like LA, bail for misdemeanors can be $80,000 if someone misses a court date. And the jails are horrific, they force you to be racist especially if you’re Hispanic or black.

There’s so many LAPD/LASD scandals that it’s hard to conceptualize. The FBI spent millions installing videocameras throughout the jails to stop the rampart torture and abuse of inmates by LA County Sheriff Deputies. The longtime Sheriff went to federal prison over it. And this was after a 10-year supervisory role of the DoJ and hundred million+ spent to stop police report. After it!

Good luck surviving that system without a serious bias towards authority.




Then they just go in again until they're either rehabilitated or dead.

It doesn't functionally matter what happens in there, since it's the same thing as with standardized tests: all tests are inherently fair, regardless of how poorly constructed they are.




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