Buying a car and actually owning it in the eyes of the law are not the same thing. Some Americans are finding that out the hard way. Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/when-your-used-car-makes-you-a-target-for-cops
This is a symptom of the "civil vs criminal" disease. Obviously, private citizens need to be able to sue other private citizens. But the existence of civil crimes vs criminal crimes is nothing more than a way to say "the top robbing the bottom isn't as bad as the bottom robbing the top". So many things would change overnight for the working/middle class of America if people knew all laws were criminal. The worse offenders being employers and landlords - even more so than car dealers. If they knew they might be pulled out of their house in cuffs in front of the neighbor, they would every word of the law memorized and fulfilled without batting an eye. But they know the poor person will have to get a lawyer, they will never afford one, and so all civil laws are basically unenforceable. Until we either get rid of civil law, or have public appointed attorneys for civil cases, justice in America is as big a joke as an "education" system that doesn't teach money.
