> because presumptively innocent people who shoplift or jump turnstiles are not kept in cages before their trial.
But they are, and therein lie the hypocrisy. If you're wealthy, then you get the opportunity to turn yourself in after weeks or months to get your affairs in order, while regular people who allegedly commit minor crimes get a gun pointed at them, roughed up, arrested, and shoved in a cell for who knows how long until they are finally informed that they have a bench warrant out on them for something that happened in 2017.
IANAL and this isn't legal advice, but the example warrants I found issue by a state government only command the officer of the state it happens in to perform the arrest. I'm not certain an officer out of state from the offense would be commanded to serve the warrant, rather than just have the option. And the rich often perform their shenanigans somewhere else so they don't shit where they eat.
But they are, and therein lie the hypocrisy. If you're wealthy, then you get the opportunity to turn yourself in after weeks or months to get your affairs in order, while regular people who allegedly commit minor crimes get a gun pointed at them, roughed up, arrested, and shoved in a cell for who knows how long until they are finally informed that they have a bench warrant out on them for something that happened in 2017.