Please remember that it is not the victim or harmed party in a crime (what lawyers call the "complaining witness") who decides whether a suspect is criminally charged.
The idea of a victim "pressing charges" is a myth.
Sheryl Weikal
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When a cop or prosecutor asks if you want to press charges, they're asking if you want THEM to file charges. And not only are they not bound by your answer, they're free to ignore it.
Stop asking ChatGPT for legal advice ðŸ«
"Sheryl, why don't you just report all these unethical lawyers and prosecutors you talk about to the state bar?"
1. What makes you think I don't?
2. I literally had to sue the state bar so trans people could practice law without being deadnamed, misgendered, or subjected to genital inspections.
Having hundreds of thousands of people unjustly caged but also having Donald Trump in there with them is NOT better.
We incarcerate TOO MANY people. We incarcerate THE WRONG people. The system is DESIGNED that way.
One of the reasons I say "we do not have an underincarceration problem" is that a lot of people think the problem with the legal system is just that too many rich people get off. But if we imprisoned Trump tomorrow, there would still be hundreds of thousands of people unjustly caged.
It honestly scares me how we recognize the legal system for what it is until a marginalized person we don't like is charged with something, at which point we basically all become Jack McCoy.
Forced prison labor is, conservatively, an $11 billion annual business.
In other words, it's the same size as Farmers Insurance, Wegmans, QuikTrip, or ChikFilA.
It remains an atrocity that 42 states charge for and means test the public defender, then give that money to the general fund and NOT the public defender.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/public-defender-fees/
If you cite Charles Murray as a source for anything, I immediately know (a) you're a racist piece of shit, (b) you don't know what you're talking about, and (c) I'd have more fun watching paint dry than whatever will happen next.