17 days in a cell without being told what you're being locked up for? For shoplifting? Absolutely a waste of society's resources, unless you think the justice system is for vindication.
You think 17 days in jail wouldn't upend your entire life? Bills? Jobs? Medications? (god knows what I'd do without my CPAP machine, die I guess)
It would suck, and it might upend others. It would not upend my life.
Okay.
In a society governed by laws, any form of detainment is unacceptable without probable cause, and any form of detainment that goes beyond an inconvenience is unacceptable without a trial.
If there is American Justice, this wasn't it pal
> American justice overall works, even if it's flawed.
Sure, if you only know the American justice system and like to be abused.