Perhaps there are alternatives other than "small crimes go unpunished" and "people make false admissions of guilt, pressured by the ruinous cost of the justice system, 300 jurors needed for a single trial"

If we've got a Lamborghini justice system, delivering amazing performance to people with a spare $250k and doing nothing for anyone else - some would say that's not the right price/performance trade off.

I don't like living in a place where wage theft dwarves all other thefts combined, but we put ridiculous resources towards petty crime.

Im sure you’re familiar with the problem that lower thresholds creates a tool for selective application.

I don't want to live in a place where a fine of < $1000 causes 100 people to have to take a day off of work only paying them $30 for their time.

and still. limited resources means some crimes will go unpunished.

let's start with the ones above $1,000 first, hm?

I wouldn’t want to live in a place where innocent people are forced under threat of financial destruction to make false confessions for crimes they didn’t commit, but here we are.