The public becomes ever more aware of a dysfunctional and predatory justice system, and so the individual, when caught, becomes ever more despondent and hopeless. One's life focus shifts to the violent disruption gradually approaching; one effectively disappears from the living and all of its concerns.
The subjective experience of becoming involved in the court system is like getting an article of clothing caught in a great industrial shredder, moving at a glacial pace. The size of the shredder, and speed of its work serves to conceal it to the general public (yes until now for the white majority, and not so for people of color), while the caught individual becomes a sort of social ghost, as the individual is pulled further along to the final court date, which is oftentimes a moving target thanks to dysfunctional, underfunded, and overburdened courts.
So the instruments of violence themselves can no longer fully function to meet their nefarious purpose. The legal process becomes the equivalent of the tortured drawing out of an execution, as the blunted axe is not enough to lop off the head in one swing.
