Part of why we remain here is that most people don't interact with the actual criminal punishment system, they are stuck in Law & Order land and fantasy land.

April 11, 2026 - 22:55 UTC

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70% of my local county jail is pre-trial and being held until their court dates, for months on end. 70% of inmates have been convicted of no crime.
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as much as I appreciate the things that Mariska Hargitay has done for victims, that show is 100% pure copaganda.
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The person her character is based on is the one who got the Central Park 5 convicted.
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There's so much people don't know. I tell people all the time about how my state has some of the worst civil forfeiture laws in the country. Every person I mention it to has never heard about it. Same with minimum mandatory sentences
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What would you say is the single biggest thing people need to understand about the reality of the judicial system?

(I'm producing a documentary on the subject and narrowing it down to a reasonable scope has been challenging!)
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i'm not the person you asked but probably the truth that there are two judicial systems (if not more).

One works for privilege.

One works against poors and non-whites.

from the outside it's the same, but from the inside it is like heaven & hell.
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So real. Also it amazes me how the same young men that are all “revolution ACAB melt ICE BLM” are the first to be like “why didn’t she report?” We see you, bro. Anti-carceral until you can use a failure to use the (absolute failure of a) carceral system to shame a victim & distance yourself from SA.
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I was lamenting Brooklyn 99 being a cop show and my mom shook her head and said, “you and cops”. My parents consume so much police procedural media their heads are deep under sand
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Even ppl who work on Law & Order believe in the fantasy
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I would be fascinated to live in a world in which TV executives were as excited to produce series about victim service organizations, restorative justice programs, re-entry experiences, and white-collar crime prosecutions as they are to produce the 3,876th version of L&O.
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There was a VERY short lived series called 'raising the bar' with uh... whatever Gosselin (sp), the dude that played Zack on Saved by the Bell.

He played an overworked PD in an office of overworked PDs and it was apparently too close to real bc it didn't get a second season. Def not copaganda.
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So many people have never bailed a friend out and it shows.
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It's really a subculture. And it's amazing how much people who have been in the system understand it deeply, and those with graduate degrees who have never been in it have no idea.
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The same for governance systems (thinking of state-level Boards of Trustees, Commissions, etc.)
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Same problem with the immigration system people have no idea
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