How many people are there are confident in our law system? Do any of you feel that it is flawed and needs improvement. Personally, I feel it is need of a major over haul. I know nothing is perfect, but any system that can let 4 cops from the LAPD beat a man and catch the whole act on camera and let them go free is flawed. Another instance, Micheal Jackson, I love him as an artist he gave us the moonwalk, but how many little boys is he going to be able to molest before he goes to jail. What about O.J. , great football player, but he is still a murderer. How many guilty people are going to go free and how many innocent people will be locked up before someone takes a better look at the system. I just want to see how many people agree with me.
Agree with you about what? All you’ve posted here is your cynicism. Every major intellectual pursuit for the public good has its flaws. None can be more effective than the people who run them. Similarly, there are flaws in both our hospitals and in the way that our society provides for access to medical care. There are people who die when they get medical care despite the best efforts made for them and other people who can;t even afford that care. However, for solutions to be found, we must do more than feeding our collective cynicism (it’s really easy to publicly judge Michael Jackson a pedophile, but in the end, all we have is our suspicion; OJ Simpson is currently facing some stiff time, a prospect he liekly would not have faced had he not been tagged by his 1st trial regardless of the outcome, and even less likely had he not been a celeb beforehand – OJ’s getting away w/nothing).
Your quote about Rodeny King says it all –
"any system that can let 4 cops from the LAPD beat a man and catch the whole act on camera and let them go free is flawed."
…forgetting that 2 of the officers were convicted when practically retried at the federal level, and also forgetting the car chase that preceded the publicized beating but didn;t get the air play and the system doesn’t sound soooo bad, just a tad bit overworked and strapped like most of us for an answer. Unfortunately, the Justice System is not a person who can pass the buck by generalizing that a "better look" is needed (as if nobody has done or is doing that now).
Do you really have any idea what introspection is involved in the criminal justice system or how much of its day to day workings is devoted to policing itself? How much research have you made on the topic before giving its practitioners a great big F? On the contrary, you look only at the results (and not that deeply) and haven’t bothered to look at the systemic problems nor consider what the answers are.
The greatest threat the CJS faces is from outside, from those who have little idea of its workings and stand ready with any shallow examination as proof of its failings.
Injustice runs rampant. I would have to examine the law books in depth to know if the actual laws themselves are flawed. If a law says that you must stop at the red light or you will be given you a $100 ticket, then that is exactly what that law means. If a crafty lawyer is consulted who can wiggle, worm, twist and manipulate someone into a different viewpoint, raise doubts about the validity of the law itself and then reference another case in another state where a crafty lawyer before him pulled the same thing and won the favor of the judge, is the the problem with the law itself or is it a problem with the ethics and morality of those in charge of upholding that law? I believe that there are serious flaws in the core of many, not all, of those in our judicial system regarding morality, ethics, and character. However, if we go back even farther in the chain we find a person who ran a red light, did not want to accept the consequences and hired the crafty lawyer to get him of the penalty that, if he were and upright person, should accept without question as the penalty for his actions. Therefore, does the problem originate within each of us? Hhmmmm…..
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Agree with you about what? All you’ve posted here is your cynicism. Every major intellectual pursuit for the public good has its flaws. None can be more effective than the people who run them. Similarly, there are flaws in both our hospitals and in the way that our society provides for access to medical care. There are people who die when they get medical care despite the best efforts made for them and other people who can;t even afford that care. However, for solutions to be found, we must do more than feeding our collective cynicism (it’s really easy to publicly judge Michael Jackson a pedophile, but in the end, all we have is our suspicion; OJ Simpson is currently facing some stiff time, a prospect he liekly would not have faced had he not been tagged by his 1st trial regardless of the outcome, and even less likely had he not been a celeb beforehand – OJ’s getting away w/nothing).
Your quote about Rodeny King says it all –
"any system that can let 4 cops from the LAPD beat a man and catch the whole act on camera and let them go free is flawed."
…forgetting that 2 of the officers were convicted when practically retried at the federal level, and also forgetting the car chase that preceded the publicized beating but didn;t get the air play and the system doesn’t sound soooo bad, just a tad bit overworked and strapped like most of us for an answer. Unfortunately, the Justice System is not a person who can pass the buck by generalizing that a "better look" is needed (as if nobody has done or is doing that now).
Do you really have any idea what introspection is involved in the criminal justice system or how much of its day to day workings is devoted to policing itself? How much research have you made on the topic before giving its practitioners a great big F? On the contrary, you look only at the results (and not that deeply) and haven’t bothered to look at the systemic problems nor consider what the answers are.
The greatest threat the CJS faces is from outside, from those who have little idea of its workings and stand ready with any shallow examination as proof of its failings.
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