Demand more of those public servants. Vote for people who will reform the criminal justice system. Expand the courts to insure speedy trials. The answer is never mob law and vigilante "justice" and it's disturbing to see so many people cheering for just that.
I read a book about crime and justice in frontier Los Angeles not long ago (Eternity Street by John Mack Farragher--highly recommended), and they had similar complaints. The leading citizens formed a Vigilance Committee and took matters into their own hands. The problem was that once they had established that precedent there was no stopping it. Those same leading citizens soon became appalled by the sheer number of lynchings being done by others. The owner of the local corral took down the crosspiece above the gate because so many people were being hanged from it. The whole thing came to a climax in 1871 when the mobs lynched about 20 Chinese men, including a doctor who was the leader of the Chinese community, after a policeman was injured.
Vigilante has a bad name, but the price for freedom is eternal vigilance. . Does it not say it is a RIGHT to a quick and speedy trial? Since when does that happen? Lawyers control every lever from education to prison. They get it wrong more than they get it right. Whatever happens is on them. They are the ones who pervert the law and pervert Justice itself.
Watch the old movie with Robert Mitchum, where he marries then murders his wives. This is the best example of early 1960’s sentiment. When he finally gets in front of a Judge with justice in his heart, the masses come together in a way that warms my heart. HANG HIM....HANG HIM NOW... As much as I hate Islam, they have the Justice right, they just execute it for things that shouldn’t be crimes.