They&#x27;re not getting second-tier justice.  Second-tier justice would be <i>fine</i> by them.<p>They&#x27;re getting seventh-tier justice.  Caseloads that average a single attorney-hour.  98% plea rates.  Victimless crimes.  Police departments known to fabricate evidence and permitted to persecute, detain, &amp; search with no cause.  Years between arrest and trial.  Prohibitive bail money.  Confiscation of what savings they have to pay a lawyer, on grounds that it&#x27;s connected to a crime.  Tracking of all their communications.  A tolerated culture of prison violence.  &quot;Stop resisting&quot;.  Asset forfeiture.  Sentence lengths that shock the world.<p><i>We don&#x27;t need to fix all economic inequality to fix these things</i>, because there are other times in our history and other places in the world that have drastically less of these problems, without fixing economic inequality.<p>The drug war didn&#x27;t just throw 1% of our population in prison, to satisfy those needs it completely hollowed out due process;  You need to have a wealthy family behind you at this point to experience due process as envisioned by the reformers that established it;  If you live in the wrong neighborhood and have the wrong color skin no amount of money will pay for it.