Hello:

Seems like BIG criminals skate while the little guy goes to jail...

If you're a bank and you're BIG enough, and you STEAL enough, the government will bail you out.. If you're a drug dealer, and you're BIG enough, the government won't put you in jail - (that's for the guy you snitch on), NOOO, they'll put you on the PAYROLL. If you murder people, you better murder a LOT of people like Whitey Bulger did, because if you do, the government will PROTECT you as long as you snitch... If you sell LOTS of guns to Mexican cartels, then the government will team up with you to buy MORE guns to give to the cartels. If you're BIG enough to have ordered the torture of detainees, you'll be protected... But, if you followed orders, you'll be thrown under the bus..

Is THIS American justice?? If so, it SUCKS!

excon

Even easier than that... Join the Democrat party, and you will automatically have 28% of the public defending ANYTHING you do.

Sadly I cannot dispute your views. What I have seen lately gives me genuine fear. Think about democracy for a minute... yes it gives hope to those who suffer oppression and live in tyranny. But look at where its taking us. The very freedoms we were blessed with, are the constraints for those expressing them. Our ways are no longer proactive, rather reactive. Our Justice system is based mostly on historic court cases involving law enforcement policing. (14 amendments "Introduction to Policing") You don't hear it very often, but there isn't any possible way of making Justice, without being unjust. But there are those still strive for the truth and stand up for what is right. I may not like the cop that has become disgruntled and lost his/her way if even momentarily. But I can either complain about it, or make a difference. I myself, have seen Justice amongst criminals. As I have also witnessed crime among lawmen. We should not judge others for what they do often, rather for what they do in certain situations. Crime and Justice can be both good and evil. There's a HUGE difference between doing wrong and being wrong. Not in today's society. A lawyer can be the "devils advocate" or a bringer of justice. Like the saying goes, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Justice is no different.

I remember a couple of cases, the largest drug burst of my life, myself ( uniformed) and a plains clothes, staked out an apartment all day, waiting for the residents to come home,
With all the drugs and things in the home. There was four people, and all college students, well after the arrest, I went to the court house the next morning for the first appearance, they were not there, in fact the court had no record of them to be there.
I went back to my department, the arrest paper work had disappeared. Family had enough money to reach the right people and poop no evidence, no arrest record.

Another time, one of the star foot ball quarterbacks, had his car impounded, well he and a couple buddies cut though the police impound lot, and stole the car back.
I caught them near the foot ball stadium. Before, yes before I got them all cuffed and had a unit come to pick them up, they called me on the radio to telephone them, and on the telephone ( not on the public radio) I was told it was a "misunderstanding" and any damages were taken care of and they were to be released.

If that had been Joe from the hood or the trailer park they would have gotten 5 years in prison

Money talks and BS walks. A lot of money placed in willing hands can go VERY FAR indeed.
Chuck, your stories are probably very true and I could tell a few of these type of stories as well. It's amazing how HIGH up the corruption goes. In one instance I could relate is about a Federal Judge happily dismissing cases in South Florida for a hefty "fee". But you had to know the right person to arrange this transaction with.