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> This is how you get a legal code like America's, where a cop and prosecutor can put almost anyone in jail with the flimsiest excuse.

Then how come America, with its strict procedural safeguards, has that legal environment where people now feel unsafe even talking to cops, whereas many European countries with a more common-sense, less rules-lawyery approach (like the big fines handed out to a lot of privacy-violating tech companies lately) have a much friendlier culture with fewer obvious abuses?