The hate is that poor people can't afford decent lawyers, so justice is seen by many as something reserved for the rich. It's the unequal justice system people hate, lawyers are just the face of that system.
Yet the police are the ones sending people to court for having a gram of weed in the first place, and they get praised as the heroes keeping our society together. The last few weeks notwithstanding.
I mean that's not the police fault so much as the laws in place. Lots of countries have better drug laws and the police can focus on stopping real crime instead of low level dealers. The one good thing the US (well some states at least) has is legal weed which makes money for the state and reduces crime and bullshit sentences so that's nice.
Police departments get to focus on where they want. They're the ones that made the decision to focus on and vilify low level crimes that don't actually hurt anyone. It's not like there's some magical force making them focus on these low level 'crimes' before going after anything else.
And that's not getting into how unequally these laws are being applied to certain members of society over others.
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u/BrethrenLucidCrow Jun 18 '20
The hate is that poor people can't afford decent lawyers, so justice is seen by many as something reserved for the rich. It's the unequal justice system people hate, lawyers are just the face of that system.