Indeed. "Well, I would never have been so stupid as to get arrested!" is the attitude. It's a hueristic based on false assumptions about the system set mainly by the media, which is entirely, supremely false. It would be amazing for a story, any story, to take place in a realistic justice system where the meat grinder is on glorious display. (Public defenders would be good people to interview on this; maybe some ex-LEOs disenchanted with the system)