Without American cop show bluster, without pretrial detention except for serious crimes, and without lengthy prison sentences.
In the UK, junior policemen walk up to you and ask you to remove your hat. So the camera can see your face.
The lack of bail often makes this worse, a weird obsession with “fairness” forces us to continue locking up people with sufficient assets to insure against absconding. Poor people can’t afford bail? Better make everyone else suffer too.
Do you believe that rich people should suffer more because poor people can’t afford bail?
If you break a leg, should everyone else have their legs broken too? That’d be fair, right?
They aren't suffering more than poor.
> If you break a leg, should everyone else have their legs broken too? That’d be fair, right?
No.
But they are suffering more than they would if given the ability to post bail.