The Justice System Against Ficer

Wrongful convictions are common in the court-system. In fact, wrongful convictions are not the rare events that you see or hear on televisions shows, but are very common. They stem from some sort of systematic defect that lead to wrongful convictions such as, eyewitness misidentification testimony, unvalidated or improper forensic science, false confessions and incriminating statements, DNA lab errors, false confessions, and informants (2014). Bringing awareness to all these systematic defects, which result in wrongful, is important because it will better adjust the system to avoid making the same mistakes with future cases. However, false confession is not a systematic defect. It does not occur because files were misplaced or a lab technician put one too many drops. False confessions occur because of some of psychological attempt to protect oneself and their family. Thus, the courts responsibility should be to reduce these false confessions.

This paper takes a leap into the corrupted side of the criminal justice system. After analyzing several articles regarding wrongful conviction cases in the Unites States, it is apparent that wrongful conviction cases occur more often than society believed. It has come to surface in recent years that wrongful convictions are a big problem with our criminal justice system. Researchers have discovered the causes of wrongful convictions to be bad lawyering, government misconduct, informants, false confessions, flawed forensic science and eyewitness error. Furthermore, this paper explores the affects victims face due to a wrongful conviction. As society has begun to steadily realize that miscarriage of justice is a possibility, researchers have considered reforms to the criminal justice system.

The amount of force used was excessive and unnecessary. Fields was not in a situation where is like was in danger or where he needed to defend himself. There could have been other alternatives to this incident like having a female officer coming to get or, or calling her parent. Other measure could have been taken before Fields did what he did. This is one reason why I think officers should not be allowed to use excessive force in most circumstances. By doing what he did, not only did he injured the student, but he could have injured himself or another student in the process. Because some officers do not the proper methods they were taught at the police academy that put themselves in danger as well as the lives of others. By implementing the proposed alternative this could have limited the amount of discretion used be officer Fields and maybe the female student would not have a broken arm. Another alternative is to pair rookie cops up with seasoned officers until they can show they can weigh the cost and benefits of the situation and come up with the best solution possible. This process may take a little longer, but over time the benefits should be much greater. The only time when police officers should be allowed to use excessive force is in life or death situations, or in the pursuit of a chase. Other than that, I do not think officers

The media has portrayed Officers in a new light. Rather than protective guardians, they are now unstable, power-fueled workers of the law. It is their choice what they will do with the duty of enforcing the law. Anyone can fall victim to Police Brutality. However, America’s social and economic society is improving at an alarming rate. America is at a time now where peaceful protests and the like are promoted, while aggressive out lashes, unlawful activities, and excessive force is frowned upon. The economy today is a result of the hard work of ancestors who protested and ensured a better future. In the future, it is possible that Officers will no longer be stereotyped as abusive, or unlawful. A united front is required for this future, where there are no more sides, violence, or

The review board collectively decided that there is no misconduct, in this situation because this officer was just doing his job. Officer White used utilized a policing know as community policing; when you place a group of officers in an area to get familiar with the locals. ("Community Policing Defined", 2014) This means that these officers will do whatever is necessary to gain the trust of the people in the community. ("Community Policing Defined", 2014) In this situation, Officer White was doing just that, interacting with the kids in a positive way, and building the trust and confidence in the community. Instead of making a big deal about the noise they were making, he made them feel comfortable enough to play with them, building the trust between the public and the police, because as stated above over 5 million people viewed this

In what ways is the indigenous justice paradigm in conflict with the principles of the traditional, adversarial American criminal justice system? In what ways do the principles of Native American justice complement more mainstream correctional initiatives?

“The court finds you guilty on all accounts. You are sentenced to 35 years in federal prison. Court dismissed.” If only justice in America was the same as a hollywood movie, where, in the end, each and every person put on trial receives a true and just verdict. It would be nice if America’s justice system was designed so that “you couldn’t be the next victim of corruption - innocent and sent to prison, or strapped to a table and put to death; or robbed of your life savings by American lawyers” (Sachs, America’s Corrupt Legal). Welcome to the new America, where all it takes is pockets as deep as the Pacific Ocean to be innocent and poverty to be found guilty, thrown in jail, and not given a second thought. Although America often prides itself on its just ways of governing and dealing with potential criminals, the justice system is often corrupted because of social issues, ethical issues, corrupt officials, and control of the press.

With the initiative of the innocence project, many of these convictions are being overturned, allowing families to be reunited. There are many reasons why these wrongful convictions happen. The most common among them is false eyewitness identification, which has played a role in more than 75 percent of wrongful convictions overturned by the Innocence Project initiative. Once presumed to be incontrovertible, the ever growing body of evidence now tells that eyewitness identifications are unreliable (please see image A2 for the trending of exonerations year by year). In approximately, 25 percent of DNA exoneration cases, innocent people were coerced into making false confessions. Of the 292 people freed by the Innocence Project, 28 actually pled

The majority of the officers is committed to protecting and severing others and for the most part are very honorable and very virtuous people. However they are the assorted few that make unscrupulous decisions that can affect not only the officer, but also the entire agency. What affects one law enforcement agency affects all law enforcement agencies across this great nation in the world we live in today. Many times these officers will frame the argument in support of public safety over individual liberties. As each of us know we are living in a very different world than we did just a few years ago. It’s my professional experience that many whites have no knowledge or empathy for minorities who feel as though they have been stopped or beleaguered solely on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Equally many minorities sense that all police are predisposed and dishonestly target specific groups based on pigeonholes and incorrect representations. Combine this with the twenty-four (24) hour news cycle that propagates and emphasizes certain confrontations to attract viewership and provoke communities on both sides of the

First of all, Encinia should have never asked Bland to step out of her car. Although he had every legal right to order her to exit her car, and her refusal to extinguish her cigarette was disrespectful, it was no reason to order her out of her vehicle. One of the biggest issues raised in this altercation is the fact that Officer Encinia threatened physical harm to Bland if she did not exit the vehicle right then. He even pulled his Taser on her and threatened to “light her up”, which is unethical no matter which way you look at it. She had every right to be informed of why she was being arrested and he would not tell her, only kept ordering her out of the car and threatening her. As I stated above, Officer Encinia was the only one visible through most of the video, so it is difficult to know whether he did in fact use force and throw her on the ground, whether she did kick him, and all of the he said-she said from the video. He did, however, use too much force in his attempt to detain Bland. She is a tiny woman and there was no need in him using so much physical force and threatening her with extensive bodily harm in order to detain her. When Encinia is giving his statement, he tells officials that he spoke to Bland in a calm manner and tried to calm her down and she continued to become more irate, and as we can clearly see, he was not speaking to her in a calm manner. He also states that he had informed Bland that she was under arrest upon the arrival of the other officer onto the scene. He claims that, at that point, he told her to stop resisting and that she was under arrest. As we can hear from the beginning of the altercation, she tells him that she is not under arrest so she does not have to get out of her vehicle, at which point, he informs her that she is under arrest and refuses to tell

There was a suspect that witnessed and said “As I was watching Michael Brown go on the speed chase I saw Brown surrender and put his hands up, but the officer did not give a damn and shot him with no mercy.” Jake Halpern stated that the woman did not want to state her name but as he was getting evidence on what happened that day she was crying so much pain knowing what she saw, that it was no fair for anybody. The equality for people is way different, the LAPD would not give so much interest in A officer doing his work. Everything was from witnesses, no video clip was uploaded, as for officer Wilson he still states that he was doing his job and brown was not listening to directions so officers have the right to fire. The police officers have their own way to communicate with one another and you have to make sure that you listen to what they say or things will go wrong.

In my opinion, the officer received a slap on the wrist. I have watched the video footage multiple times and did not see Sarah Reed, biting his finger that leads me to believe that his claim is false. If, in fact, it was true, as an officer who is supposed to serve and protect the citizens, PC Kiddie should not have reacted that violently. I

At a High School in South Carolina a student was to be removed from the classroom they were in for misbehaving so the resource officer was called in to escort the student out but instead flips the student back in the desk and proceeded to drag the student out of the desk as if they were a rag doll and better yet the officer wasn’t even charged for what’s he’d done. This is Police brutality and I am strongly against it. I fell like some police or those with authority think they rule the world or something or that they are the law and decide to take matters into their own hands anyway they want, even if that involves unnecessary acts of violence. The student being handled like a rag doll was one of many of the examples of police brutality almost

I do agree that using excess force is uncalled for, but if you are in the line of duty and your life may be threatened who is to say that it is excess force. The officer may have been acting on sheer human nature to protect himself and his fellow workers. With the friend stepping in to stop the office, I feel that this was very courageous and she did display the right amount of virtues. If a fellow officer is using too much force, it is the duty of the other officers to stop this from happening. By doing this it is a very courageous act as you may stop another officer from beating a person that is resisting and the man may get up and pull a gun. So there is a very thin line if the use of excessive force so they must trust themselves and the

After watching the short clip of the 19 year old man running from police officers and fighting his arrest, I do believe that the officer's actions were justifiable. Under the LVMPD handbook, it provides officers with liable reasons for using force. For example, the man was cycling towards the camera crew potentially injuring them and also was heading into the street with oncoming traffic. The man was potentially going to injure himself and other motorists on the road because of his dangerous actions. Under act VI Section D, which states that "the subject displays the intent to harm the officer, themselves or another person and prevent an officer from placing the subject in custody and taking control." it was in the officers hands to use his