> because presumptively innocent people who shoplift or jump turnstiles are not kept in cages before their trial.
But they are, and therein lie the hypocrisy. If you're wealthy, then you get the opportunity to turn yourself in after weeks or months to get your affairs in order, while regular people who allegedly commit minor crimes get a gun pointed at them, roughed up, arrested, and shoved in a cell for who knows how long until they are finally informed that they have a bench warrant out on them for something that happened in 2017.