Justice Is Not Blind
TJ Dougherty
ENG101
Argument essay
“Justice” in America Every day people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. It has been a long time since the trials of the Scottsboro Boys or George Whitmore, but our justice system has not changed. People of foreign race and lower social status receive different treatment in the justice system. These victims are often wrongfully accused, or even abused by the ones paid to protect them. The United States justice system gives unfair treatment and trials to our poor and minor races. George Whitmore was a poor black man who was manipulated into signing a false confession. George was never taught how to read or write. How did he know what he was signing? Intense interrogations and manipulative lawyers/investigators trick people into signing their lives away. Whitmore was young, and like many who have falsely confessed, he was tricked to believe it would be a way out of this terrible situation. Interrogators tire you and expose false information to get what they want out of you. They are so good at what they do that they can pick up a poor man or minority off the street and get a confession out of them. When a crime is committed all our justice system wants is to lock someone up for it, and please the public, often pinned are minorities and poor men, because they fit the public’s perception of the common “criminal”. In Phoenix Arizona, a black man was beaten to death by several police officers. The officers said that the man was showing a threat to them, but in the video you see no more than a flinch from him before he was beaten down. Charles Agster, Scott Norberg, and Brian Crenshaw are three of many black men killed by police and/or guards in jail. (Wikipedia) Since Sherriff Joe’s term began, Maricopa County has paid over $43 million in lawsuits to families of people killed or injured in jail custody. A majority of these people were black or Hispanic men. Arizona is not the only place that this occurs. Police
ENG101
Argument essay
“Justice” in America Every day people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. It has been a long time since the trials of the Scottsboro Boys or George Whitmore, but our justice system has not changed. People of foreign race and lower social status receive different treatment in the justice system. These victims are often wrongfully accused, or even abused by the ones paid to protect them. The United States justice system gives unfair treatment and trials to our poor and minor races. George Whitmore was a poor black man who was manipulated into signing a false confession. George was never taught how to read or write. How did he know what he was signing? Intense interrogations and manipulative lawyers/investigators trick people into signing their lives away. Whitmore was young, and like many who have falsely confessed, he was tricked to believe it would be a way out of this terrible situation. Interrogators tire you and expose false information to get what they want out of you. They are so good at what they do that they can pick up a poor man or minority off the street and get a confession out of them. When a crime is committed all our justice system wants is to lock someone up for it, and please the public, often pinned are minorities and poor men, because they fit the public’s perception of the common “criminal”. In Phoenix Arizona, a black man was beaten to death by several police officers. The officers said that the man was showing a threat to them, but in the video you see no more than a flinch from him before he was beaten down. Charles Agster, Scott Norberg, and Brian Crenshaw are three of many black men killed by police and/or guards in jail. (Wikipedia) Since Sherriff Joe’s term began, Maricopa County has paid over $43 million in lawsuits to families of people killed or injured in jail custody. A majority of these people were black or Hispanic men. Arizona is not the only place that this occurs. Police