DEFUNCT JUDICIAL SYSTEM

We all seem to know that our judicial system is corrupt and defunct. For those that say otherwise at least have some sort of basic fear or distrust of the law. What's worse is that it's taught in colleges across the country that we live under a broken system. I say this because I've attended two different colleges, a community college in Virginia and a state university in Kansas, and each had multiple professors that championed it's ineffectiveness. 

What I don't understand is that if most people have issues with the law and professors are teaching that it's a broken system, then why hasn't something been done about it? We just keep passing on our crap from generation to generation. Has the peoples real rights and our power to keep our government in check been left that far by the wayside?

I have no real answers because I am but a peon in the grand scheme of things. Though that mentality right there is probably the real issue. We have been bred into weak mindless sheep. But my guess is that most people just simply don't care. Ignorance is bliss. Anyways, it was just a thought.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
-Louis D. Brandeis