I was liberal until 2017 and I didn’t realize that year after year, decade after decade my worldview had been warped by the propaganda of endless episodes of tv cop series and tv legal series that I consumed without thinking. I had no idea…

• For the poor - bail is a jail sentence.

• The right to a speedy trial is a lie.

• Even when I was a boy and a teen - jury trials were already uncommon. NYT: “In 1980, 81% of federal convictions were the product of guilty pleas. Now [in 2016] the percentage is about 95%.”

• Plea bargaining in the US is a disgrace. There was a transfer of power from prosecutors to judges.

• Etc.