Flaws of Ciminal Justice System

The first issue that I shall address is racial profiling. This is an important issue because if minorities are not treated fairly in the criminal justice system, the nation will never be totally united. The fact that minorities are being treated harder in the criminal justice system is just one more fact that the old saying "all men are created equal," is false. If you do not think that this is a problem than you should take a look at these facts:

-African Americans account for one-third of all arrests and one-half of all incarcerations in the United States. (Meeks)

-Since 1980 the proportion of Hispanic Americans among all inmates in U.S. prisons has risen from 7.7

This solution would be extremely beneficial for society. People would come out of prison ready to contribute to society instead of bringing society down. I believe that if a politician had the guts to address this problem he would eventually get the public's support. The more productive members society has the better off society will be.

-Among 100,000 black males aged 15-19, 68 will die of a homicide involving a gun, compared to about 6 among 100,000 white males in the same age group. (Meeks)

-The crime victimization rate is 260 per 1,000 Hispanic households versus 144 per 1,000 non-Hispanic households. (Cole Smith)

Somewhere down the line these problems will be addressed. Will my solutions be used? Maybe. Something will be done to correct these problems. Whether or not the chosen methods work or not, well, we'll just have to wait and see

-The rate of unfounded arrests of Hispanics in California is double that of whites. (Cole Smith)

These numbers can be very alarming. It is obvious that minorities have more trouble with the law than whites. That is not fair. In order to fix this problem one must understand why it occurs. When an officer is on the job he looks for trends and patterns that will make his job easier. The officer will look at the crime rates for the community he is patrolling. If the officer discovers that minorities are four times more likelyto be arrested than whites, he will "play the statistics," and watch for more minorities in that community. If more minorities are being watched, then more minorities will be arrested. Then when the crime rates are updated the community will once again have a higher minority crime rate than a white crime rate. The cycle continues which causes more minorities to be arrested than whites.

The public would not like this solution. These holding cells would not be cheap. It would come out of taxpayers money. Taxpayers already feel they pay too much for prisons. Society considers suspects to be criminals even before they are proven guilty. They would not stand to be paying more money to criminals whom they have no sympathy for.

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