The entire US approach to dealing with crime is tainted by both racism and a religious-fundamentalist approach to sin. People very much want to believe that there are good people and bad people, and that it&#x27;s feasible to sort everyone into those categories and put the bad people in prison and punish them eternally for their intrinsic badness.<p>This blinds people to misconduct by the &quot;&quot;good guys&quot;&quot;.