These men and women come from vastly different backgrounds but share two distinct characteristics they are highly educated and overworked. In Courtroom 302, there are several major issues that are addressed concerning the law and mental health issues. Several dysfunctions that can be seen are more so concerning the law in itself and that is that jails and prisons are simply being used to house offenders and not reform them, as was the original intent. Courtroom 302 also illustrates a court system that is broken, where judges, attorneys and officers are overworked and forced to simply process cases and do not have the time to work in the interest of finding or delivering justice.
The Police Officers that are on city streets serve a dual role, they are the first line of defense for citizens as well as the first encounter that people as their liberties are limited and they enter the criminal justice system. If police officers are more properly vetted, to ensure that they will be a part of the solution and not a further level of the problem they would gain more trust from the people they are sworn to serve. The second vital thing that must happen is a more thorough training program for officers so that they are able to more readily identify if the people they encounter are mentally well or not. If they are able to more readily identify the mental stability of offenders this stands to mitigate further conflict between themselves and the person of