Reflective Essay: Diversity And The Criminal Justice System

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Well let’s see, there is this one mistake that always has me on my toes. The mistake I made was, I was being trained on a new program for our courthouse. I am advanced with technology and computers. Anyways we were told by our supervisors that our procedures or the citations have not changed, but the steps on how we process it have. Well I thought I knew it since I had received an award for diversity and professionalism, because I actually wrote the procedures that were in play for our policies. So with our new system that we were trained I thought I felt like oh I don’t need this training I got this. Well one day in the cash room Mrs. Donna was showing me how to process our tills, I felt like I didn’t need the training so I let one thing through

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