Faulty In The Criminal Justice System

The loosely applied laws toward certain individual within courts can also point to the faulty system that it is occurring in. The criminal justice system acts as the machine operated by the cogs. Courts often have a culture of lawyers who are socialized to see judges and law as supreme and not too question the outcomes. When lawyers are there to ensure their client is given a fair and speedy trial often you will see they are not there to represent or fight for their client, they are there to keep the system going. This can be seen as the crime control model. What this creates is the literal application of a speedy trial but not applying all aspects of the law. The idea of a fair trial is to separate the guilty from the innocent by protecting
against injustice. Yet lawyers do not always actively seek clients who have been wrongfully committed. Because of the crime control model in which the courts exist, law is not distributed or applied equally among all people. The existence of racial bias even occurs in the incarceration of criminals. For example, the majority of death row victims is undeniably majority black and Hispanic men. In summary Dr. King was correct in pointing out that even then and now courts do not fulfill the job of upholding the law as they were appointed to do. This issue may be because there is a systematic issue in the criminal justice system, but it also relates to the officers upholding the law in the front lines. I believe it is because the definition of law, crime, and justice is not clearly defined or evenly applied consistently, even though it is an important belief upheld by citizens.