Good point. We have a system of anarcho-tyranny: where the legal system tyrannizes law-abiding citizens with bureaucratic red tape, gives draconian sentences for minor or victimless crimes, while doing little or nothing about truly dangerous and violent criminals. Suspended Imposition of Sentence allows many violent thugs to walk the streets while someone else rots away in Federal Prison for driving some pot over state lines or failing to report additional income from doing odd jobs on a tax return.
Probably the most destructive “booger in the law” is what is known as concurrent sentencing. When a person is arrested on a felony and released into the public awaiting trial, he can commit endless crimes of a lesser penalty value because he will know with confidence that all of his offenses will be merged into one concurrent term of incarceration. If he is already getting 12 years for a robbery where the victim is injured, he can commit assaults, burglaries, drug offenses galore and he will never do more than the 12 years to which he will be sentenced on his primary offense.