Joseph, all you do is tell unsourced, anecdotal fairy tales to support your cause. How many frum Jews convicted of civil crimes were wrongly convicted? How many went to jail for refusing to testify? What are your sources? In czarist Russia mesira was essential because no Jew could get a fair trial and punishment involved long sentences. The poskim who hold that mesira does not apply in the US is because, by and large, a Jew can be fairly triedin civil court, even more so in federal court I find it hard to believe that many Jews would go to jail to protect criminals, when there are reliable poskim to fall back on.
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