Is The Criminal Justice System Too Harsh Or Unfair?
Is the Criminal Justice System too harsh or unfair? The Criminal Justice System is supposed to deter crime, so that it will prevent previous criminals from acting again and influence others to not commit. Although in many cases the CJS (Criminal Justice System) is successful, there are great amounts of flaws in the system. There are different perspectives on the CJS and it is hard to argue which one is right because they all, for the most part, have good points. Some flaws that are most concerning are having trust with the CJS on not being equal to all citizens. Many people seem to be frustrated and unsatisfied for many reasons about the way the CJS is running. Crime rates have been increasing and people are being racially profiled which leads
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People will be profiled along the lines of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or religion (Bumgarner 29). Police will just assume rather the than knowing the actual intentions or history of the suspect. Profiling is unfair and unequal to law-abiding citizens. Stereotyping is offensive and negative “The profiler anticipates the characteristics of the perpetrator who is an abstraction rather than a real person” (Gardner). Innocent people get wrongly accused because of all the negative stereotypes. In moat scenarios, these accusations are inaccurate or too exaggerating. An example of racial profiling in the wrong way is that “A stereotype that all urban African Americans are into drug and crime is not only extremely negative, but it is wildly inaccurate, thereby resulting in false investigations and accusations of innocent people at the expense of more reasoned efforts against the genuinely guilty” (Bumgarner 50). Not everyone is the same and it is not okay to stereotype people and label them for the wrong reasons. There aren’t only negative labels, there are positive ones which leads to police scouting for particular races rather than the ones with positive labels. To conclude, racial profiling makes a bad impression on police when used in the wrong way and lately, bad impressions is what tends to be
People will be profiled along the lines of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or religion (Bumgarner 29). Police will just assume rather the than knowing the actual intentions or history of the suspect. Profiling is unfair and unequal to law-abiding citizens. Stereotyping is offensive and negative “The profiler anticipates the characteristics of the perpetrator who is an abstraction rather than a real person” (Gardner). Innocent people get wrongly accused because of all the negative stereotypes. In moat scenarios, these accusations are inaccurate or too exaggerating. An example of racial profiling in the wrong way is that “A stereotype that all urban African Americans are into drug and crime is not only extremely negative, but it is wildly inaccurate, thereby resulting in false investigations and accusations of innocent people at the expense of more reasoned efforts against the genuinely guilty” (Bumgarner 50). Not everyone is the same and it is not okay to stereotype people and label them for the wrong reasons. There aren’t only negative labels, there are positive ones which leads to police scouting for particular races rather than the ones with positive labels. To conclude, racial profiling makes a bad impression on police when used in the wrong way and lately, bad impressions is what tends to be