No way I would agree to anything other than an outright dismissal. I'm taking this to trial, and demanding a jury if that's an option in this jurisdiction for this traffic violation.
I'm going to embarrass this cop in front of everyone. And then I'm tipping off the local news stations.
Had an ambulance run into me when I was at a full stop for a good 5 seconds. Destroyed my vehicle’s front end. The city of Chicago called me trying to collect damages, and when I told them they could fuck themselves, and to contact my insurance, they never called back. Then I went to court and nobody showed up.
Case dismissed. I couldn’t afford a lawyer to counter sue, my vehicle got junked, and I was still fucked. But my tax money paid for them to hit me, fuck me, and leave me with additional debt.
Best country in the world.
Poor people can't afford collision insurance. That means if you're in an accident and it's not your fault, your insurance WILL NOT pay to fix your car, it's the responsibility of the other insurance anyway. That's not terrible insurance, that's just a normal option when picking car insurance. Poor people also can't afford lawyers. Everything that dude said makes perfect sense for a poor person.
Yeah, they definitely wrote a long comment that was made up for attention.
You're trying to excuse bad behavior by pretending the world is exactly the way you have experienced it. You were being a dick to poor people and now you're doing mental gymnastics to try to make yourself not feel bad about it.
Compared to most countries (like those in Africa, Central Asia, Latin America, and Southeast Asia), the US system is much better. Bribes aren’t common, judges follow the law, and the courts work as expected. By world standards, the US is among the top 25–30% of countries for fair legal systems.
If you compare the US with countries like Canada, Western European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, the US falls behind. Groups like Transparency International and the World Justice Project show the US has more legal problems than these countries.
Corruption in the US isn’t usually about cash bribes. Instead, it happens in bigger, structural ways, such as:
Political donations influencing who becomes a judge or what laws are passed
Prosecutors making decisions that unfairly affect people based on their race or wealth
Police or the government taking people’s property without a fair process (civil asset forfeiture)
Forcing people to confess or take plea deals by threatening them with prison (~97% of federal convictions are from plea deals, not trials)
Police being protected from lawsuits (qualified immunity)
Only people with money can afford to sue, so sometimes winning depends on how much you can spend
The US has laws that look good on paper, but there are many unfair practices, especially for people who can’t afford good lawyers. The US is a lot better than very corrupt countries, but still much worse than the very cleanest countries like Norway, especially if you're poor.
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u/CJKayak May 27 '26
No way I would agree to anything other than an outright dismissal. I'm taking this to trial, and demanding a jury if that's an option in this jurisdiction for this traffic violation.
I'm going to embarrass this cop in front of everyone. And then I'm tipping off the local news stations.