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The criminal justice system upholds injustice just as much as it exacts it.  So many policies in our justice system were made to target people of color and people in poorer areas. A system that was built to benefit some and subordinate others is bound to fail.

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The justice system is so prone to failure because of the certain laws that are set in place. MLK supports this idea in the "Letter to Birmingham Jail" by explaining that "An unjust law is a code that a minority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself...a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow…” This corroborates the idea that our system is unjust because of the foundation (the laws). MLK stimulates thought in the audience to question this foundation of the justice system.

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Justice system is ineffective and bias towards race. Rather than dealing with the actual issue at hand an innocent victim was at the wrong place at the wrong time and got in trouble for defending herself

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legal reforms that would encourage more accountability within the justice system. The law they mentioned, the three times law?, seems to overly support the
conviction of individuals.

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It seemed impactful because it was a completely accidental crime and any reasonable person who knew the circumstances would agree that the lady did nothing wrong. Yet, she was tried for a felony.

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I think that hearing Anna's story helped me to better realize that the justice system isn't as effective as we'd like to believe it is. There are times when people of authority, who are supposed to protect us, end up being the ones to cause harm to us instead. In addition to this, the justice system has very apparent biases when it comes to gender, race, age, etc.

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The officials involved in the criminal justice system are always seen trying to "fix injustices or mistreatments" to incarcerated individuals. However, this often becomes solely a phrase that they can pass around when citizens are dissatisfied with the verdict of a case or how it was handled.

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The episode being set so close to home definitely made Koenig's message more impactful, because even though the people involved are strangers to us, we still feel a sort of connection to them, and this breaks through the normal desensitization we feel towards everything we hear about in the media

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I think that the justice system is prone to failure like the injustice in this case because our nation's history has had a long history of prejudice and racial stereotyping and with these predetermined mindsets comes the unfair decisions that people who hold power in the justice system or temporarily in the jury can abuse.

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I believe that the justice system is flawed and ineffective in doing what it is intended, fair and equal prosecution for those who committed a crime. In Anna's case this was not fair or equal treatment, the ones with the power hold the control, in Anna's case the police officer. It's obvious that no system can be perfect, but the justice system is flawed in a way that can impact millions of lives and must be reformed
to truly have an effective, just system.

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I think new policies would be most effective in protecting marginalized groups within the justice system. This includes reforming cash bail, or even removing mandatory minimums/three strike laws.

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What particularly frightens me about Anna's story is that she was charged, even though she reacted the same way I would have in her situation. It reminds me of the arrest of MLK, as he was protesting, which I would have done as well in his situation. These stories make me feel vulnerable, as if I could be arrested for something that I do, even if there is no harmful intent.

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I think the justice system is so prone to failure because the basis on which some people are arrested are so discriminatory. The prejudice that some law enforcement acts upon is so unjust, and it keeps happening over and over again. There needs to be serious reform in police education.

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I think that the justice system is so prone to failure because it has been built on inequality and division. Opportunity and outcome are heavily reliant on wealth, or lack thereof, and socioeconomic status in the U.S. has always been linked to race.

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The Justice System as a whole is pretty inefficient due to a major imbalance in multiple factors such as economics, region, race, gender, etc. This goes past just the criminal system, as it is also found in civil cases, and after hearing Anna's story in particular, the injustice is made clear

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I think its so prone to failure because we have less of a "justice system" and more of a criminal system. The way things work now is so we can get as many people convicted as possible because prisons can make money off of that.The goals we have are not centered around truly helping people stuck in the system but to try and keep them there

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My thoughts on justice system is very unfair and ineffective.

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The justice system is full of bias. Race is the biggest cause of the bias. The bias leads to what people would think is efficiency but is actually not.

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Our prison system needs to be less punitive. The fact that we focus so heavily on punishment rather than rehabilitation traps marginalized people in a cycle of crime.

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Koenig's message is

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Because there aren't enough checks to prevent the bias