America’s Criminal Justice System Is Rotten To The Core

 

America’s Criminal Justice System Is Rotten to the Core

Before you can fairly assess the legitimacy of the ongoing protests or the quality of the government’s response, you must understand the relevant facts. And the most relevant fact is that America’s criminal justice system is rotten to its core. Though that certainly does not justify the violence and wanton destruction of property perpetrated by far too many protesters, it does provide useful context for comprehending the intensity of their anger and the fecklessness of the government’s response. If America is burning, it is fair to say that America’s criminal justice system—which is itself a raging dumpster fire of injustice—lit the fuse.

What Perry Mason Taught Americans About the Criminal Justice System

Raymond Burr as detective Perry Mason in "Case of the Deadly Toy." (CBS via Getty Images)

 What Perry Mason Taught Americans About the Criminal Justice System

How one of the first courtroom dramas has shaped what we watch and how we see the law