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Justice may be blind, but she's stupid.
Only because our pretense of democracy obliges Her to occasionally abide terrible advice given in bad faith.
Meanwhile, society has repeatedly, in my lifetime, refused to fix these problems because the complaint is widely viewed as politically liberal. But don't worry, just like the Drug War, when what conservatives want gets out of hand, they just blame liberals, vote for more of the same, and get on with their lives.
In other words, yeah, sorry, but take a number. Quite frankly, on the cosmic scale of bullshit corruption, I'm pretty sure your story isn't placing high on the list. I live at the edge of a small city where the cops are willfully creating traffic hazards in order to issue tickets as part of an apparent revenue scheme under a government that is the latest iteration of a bad idea by which the low-taxes, do-nothing, build it they will come attitude has left finances in a downward spiral; to wit, they can't afford to annex anything to expand their revenue base, and the economy limps along on the backs of small local businesses built on unstable models and thereby flitting in and out of existence according to the breeze, leaving the city to wait on property values to rise enough that, hopefully, the county won't cut out too much of the municipality's share, and that's supposed to go to the schools, for the most part, anyway, and this is what happens when we destroy the statewide revenue stream in the name of anti-governance government, so now local regimes are looking to gimmicks, including traffic tickets, to pay the bills.
We keep going through this in American society. Debtor's prisons in Michigan; child abuse in Pennsylvania; a war on drugs instead of addiction services. There comes a point at which we must observe a basic political reality: We could have better things, including a stronger and more reliable context of justice, but that has not really been what Americans want. I'm forty-four years old, and the election of Barack Obama, and losing majority for Hillary Clinton are as close as I've ever seen Americans come to actually voting for the things our values purport to say we want. Liberty and Justice for All? Bullshit; given a chance, people vote
against it. Here's a real statistic: There is an abstract statistical threshold by which we judge a community in crisis according to substance addiction and related behaviors;
every county that was underwater in the opioid crisis voted for Donald Trump. While the phenomenon is well observed in other contexts, we tend to reserve votes from that classification, so the question still remains just how anyone thought electing Donald Trump would help the opioid crisis.
Police corruption? Yeah, we could do something about that, as a society. But you know us, who talk about police corruption. We're just a bunch of cop-hating commies, and have been since before I was born, so why the fuck would anyone in American listen to us? No, really, we're either commies or feminists or black, and in any case the answer is the same.
I think it was the Fraternal Order of Police in Baltimore, demanding unequivocal support, that finally did it; the acknowledgment that the police intend to kill their way out of the hole pretty much buried my already difficult regard for law enforcement until significant changes occur. And, you know, it is for various reasons, practical as well as really really stupid, very unlikely that the problem you describe will place high on the list of priorities.
Well, you know, unless maybe we offer to trade out general assholism during extraneous traffic racketeering stops for upping the quota on black men they can kill for no reason before society pretends to care.
I honestly don't know what to tell you about personally-associated issues unless you have enough money for an attorney who doesn't give a damn whether or not he has to work with these people again. And your attorney needs to be able to set a hook in one of the cops. And then you just spend money flaying away chunks of the shield until you strike your pound of flesh.
But in terms of using the law to discourage corruption, as a liberal I can tell you to expect ninety-nine out of a hundred of those votes to go against you. The People love them some tough-trash law enforcement. In the end, we can certainly have some better justice, but that means approximately half our public discourse needs to stop aiming to protect and preserve traditional systemic corruption.