Reply #43: The DA's are in charge of the "system"

[ProudDad]

they have ALL of the power, that's the way the deck has been stacked for the last 30 years...

I blame the cowardly republicans and the cowardly Dems... "criminals" have been an easily oppressed minority of the population -- just to get votes, an easy sell.

I blame the media who demonize people who "commit crimes", which but for good or bad luck is damn near every one of us, in every way possible and make it easy for those assholes to pass more and more draconian "anti-crime" legislation...

I blame the ignorance of the American People. They MUST throw off the lie of "Us or Them" and embrace "WE".

Some DA's know deep down that they're full of shit and that they're railroading innocent persons and that the system of torture they send these people to doesn't work -- so they are EXTREMELY defensive when their myths are attacked. They have to believe they are doing "god's work" or they'd go crazy...

Their raises and promotions are also contingent on the quickest convictions (usually pleas) with the largest number of years of incarceration...They'd sat the "most bang for the buck".

As Lenny Bruce so accurately put it, "the only justice in the Hall of Justice is in the halls." 'cause there's bugger all in the courtroom.