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The "we" part if what you said is the tricky part. Society can be different depending on geography (that's why states exist in a way) and it is not possible to be informed on every issue when voting (if at all voting).

In my opinion, if you dig deeper the root cause that applies to america and most other counties is the lack of hostility to the perverters of justice. That is to say, those entrusted with justice either receive some or no punishment when they act in contradiction with their role as enforcers and administrators of justice. In some places a judge, prison warden or police officer who broke the law may not be held accountable and in others may receive the same punishment as anyone else. But in my opinion their punishment should harsher than the harsher punishment a regular person would have recieved. They are not equal to the rest of us because they act on behalf of the government in an official capacity not in their capacity as individuals. Grand juries and prosecutorial discretion should not apply to them, they should be indicted without any due process (the trial is their only due process). So, really, to dig even deeper it is how we see the role of those who have authority over us in the name of justice and peace that is the problem. Their conduct must be beyond reproach. We debate if shooting a person should get a cop fires but really even using a foul language should get them fired or adultery, domestic abuse and other things that reflect on their bad character.

But the who would do these jobs right? Well people should do jobs primarily because of compensation so pay them a crapton of money and so long as they meet countrywide standards of behavior I see no problem in using federal money to subsidize their pay. Carrrot ($$$) and stick (harshest punishments).

Seeing them as heroes out there in the fight against evil is what prevents this from happening. If we instead see them as well paid workers that do their job well because they get well things might change.