What is Injustice? Learners Dictionary defines Injustice as, a situation in which a person or a group of people are ignored. Ronald Cotton is a real-life example of the term injustice, because he spent eleven years of his life incarcerated for a crime he simply did not commit, only to be compensated $5,000 for the mistake the state of North Carolina made. But, how does the Criminal Justice System miss a detail so important that it determines whether a person is guilty or innocent? The fact of the matter is, people are being wrongfully convicted every day, but what can we do to ensure this does not happen? If you knew that you had wrongfully convicted a man, and were the cause of him to lose eleven years of his life to wrongful incarceration,
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To have all the evidence gathered and well put together, we must make sure we are inspecting our crime scenes for all possibly, evidence and not just going off the word of the victim like we did in the Ronald Cotton case. Officers must make sure they are scanning the whole scene of the crime for any type of evidence such as: fingerprints, hair, footprints, blood, bodily fluids or anything else admissible to find the perpetrator. I also think we need to better educate our officers. Right now, hardly any police departments require higher that a high school diploma or its equivalent. I think requiring a higher education, or offering some type of higher education program for officers would implement better policing practice from …show more content…
I believe if officers received a better academic understanding of the criminal justice system, not only would they preform better within the department, but they would learn to be more analytical and think rationally about what is being put in front of them. If making the officer go out and do this on their own seems unreachable, I think a realistic vision would be to make some sort academic training within their time at the academy. Implementing something as harmless as a twelve-week program to ensure that officers and future officers are getting the proper background knowledge would leave of police departments better off in how they complete their day to day
To have all the evidence gathered and well put together, we must make sure we are inspecting our crime scenes for all possibly, evidence and not just going off the word of the victim like we did in the Ronald Cotton case. Officers must make sure they are scanning the whole scene of the crime for any type of evidence such as: fingerprints, hair, footprints, blood, bodily fluids or anything else admissible to find the perpetrator. I also think we need to better educate our officers. Right now, hardly any police departments require higher that a high school diploma or its equivalent. I think requiring a higher education, or offering some type of higher education program for officers would implement better policing practice from …show more content…
I believe if officers received a better academic understanding of the criminal justice system, not only would they preform better within the department, but they would learn to be more analytical and think rationally about what is being put in front of them. If making the officer go out and do this on their own seems unreachable, I think a realistic vision would be to make some sort academic training within their time at the academy. Implementing something as harmless as a twelve-week program to ensure that officers and future officers are getting the proper background knowledge would leave of police departments better off in how they complete their day to day