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The Importance Of Criminal Justice

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Born and raised in the ghetto streets of Chicago life is tough. Watching kids die and mothers cry because a pig took an innocent life from them. Yes, I said pig that’s what we call them, over here they don't deserve a name because they're monsters in human form. I grew up learning an eye for an eye, so we might as well make it a life for a life. Out here the only problem is police officers finding it okay to kill an innocent soul without consequences.

In the light of, I propose my solution shoot me, I shoot you back and take my life, I guarantee to take yours. We can only become a hero when we learn from a villain how to defeat a villain. One question that probes me everyday is “Are police getting away with murder?” Their beliefs are that it is “better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6” making them think it is okay to use deadly force resisting the chance of being murdered themselves. Yet less than 1% in cops were indicted for killings, but the indictment rate for citizens is 90%. Walking out the courtroom escaping 25 years to life just because they wear a shiny piece of metal that says protect and serve. …show more content…

In the eyes of the jury, they just so happened to be the victim, they make the innocent a patsy and paint them as a villain. They show the officer was only protecting himself in fear that his life would be taken away by a citizen with their hands up in the air frightened of what might happen next with a gun pointed towards their chest, scared and defenseless. Once the jury returns with their verdict of “not guilt” and the courtroom disperse with tears on one side and complete joy on the other asking themselves “what justice was served?” There still is no justice and the victim’s family will not give the police department any

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