The difference is, you disconnect emotionally for the purpose of saving lives.
Participants in the overzealous legal system, however, disconnect emotionally in order to ruin lives. While there are some violent psychos that need to be put away, and occasionally a low-level criminal straightens their life out as an accidental side effect, a huge number of punishments are cruelly disproportionate to the actual harm to society, all for the benefit of the prosecutor's career. (And indirectly to prison guard unions, police, etc.)
Ortiz only carries a small part of the blame for this. She is only able to do it because it is normalized and systemic, in the legal system and in society at large. I guarantee that if she herself spent "only" six months in concrete cage, after 2+ years of the fear and stress of prosecution, followed by a lifetime of being stigmatized as a felon, she would feel differently.
Participants in the overzealous legal system, however, disconnect emotionally in order to ruin lives. While there are some violent psychos that need to be put away, and occasionally a low-level criminal straightens their life out as an accidental side effect, a huge number of punishments are cruelly disproportionate to the actual harm to society, all for the benefit of the prosecutor's career. (And indirectly to prison guard unions, police, etc.)
Ortiz only carries a small part of the blame for this. She is only able to do it because it is normalized and systemic, in the legal system and in society at large. I guarantee that if she herself spent "only" six months in concrete cage, after 2+ years of the fear and stress of prosecution, followed by a lifetime of being stigmatized as a felon, she would feel differently.