It could also be all avoided if we didn’t have a two tier justice system. If it is not this it will be something else as you will find out soon enough.
That’s another topic which could spin out of control on here. The two (or maybe even three) tiered justice and political system we currently have in the US. You mix money, race, class, religion, celebrity culture, and corporation influence together and you get a potpourri of issues that would sink a lesser country, and could sink this one, if not addressed.