Shannon, I love your articles. And as someone who's been a victim of unwanted harassment and touching and all sorts of sexism, I get where you're coming from.

But it's very easy for someone outside the criminal justice system to not understand why "innocent until proven guilty" is so important. Just scrolling down the comments, most of them are from white people who also mean well.

But the justice system is supposed to be about justice and rights. It's better to get it wrong sometimes than lock up thousands of people in prison for years with limited evidence and unfair standards. The reason we are fighting for criminal justice reform is because society has, for too long, assumed that Black men are guilty before they are proven as such. And it needs to be proof beyond any doubt, not a prosecutor and police lying about evidence and mistaking one person for another.

I get how important justice for women is. I've been the woman who was the victim of this s*** and then was disbelieved and no one did anything to fix anything.

But there's a reason I'm a criminal justice girl first. Innocent until proven guilty is SO important. SO important. And if we just let society decide who's wrong, that's how you end up with a really racist system.