> This is how you get vigilante justice. It is only held back by people believing that the state will treat them fairly in a court.

That's the threat at least, but do the majority actually feel that way today? Given how frequently our legal system has denied people justice and the scale at which that's been happening, I wonder how much of a threat it really is in our current environment. I'm not sure what it is that keeps people from trying to take matters into their own hands more often. Maybe it's learned helplessness, despair, fear, or lack of opportunity, but whatever it is it's been pretty effective considering the kinds of harms that people have suffered with no recourse to be made whole through the courts.