1. Discrimination and Racial Profiling
Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person's race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. ... Should race be used as a factor of protection, or is it an absurd action of racism/discrimination? ... Despite training to avoid discrimination, officers may still rely on cultural stereotypes and act on their perceptions of a person's characteristics (such as age, race or gender)("Racial Profiling," 2013). Racial profiling is problematic because it is a form of discrimination enacted and orga...
There are also those who were released after the true perpetrator of the crime came forward and made a confession or the discovery of what is sometimes described as improper police procedures where "Under considerable public pressure to solve a crime" a proper police investigation was not done. ... Considering these thoughts on the human behavior goes support the fact that the death penalty does nothing to protect anyone or even prevents crime. 4 ...
"Discrimination or "Good" Policing the Racial Profiling Debate in Canada written by Scott Wortley who is a student at the University of Toronto had conducted two surveys. ... It is therefore quite upsetting to note that in today's society discrimination and racism still exist and play a dominate roll in assuming that people are guilty of committing crimes in Canada. In today's society Racial Profiling is not a legitimate tool to use when solving crime as it instead makes those feel unwelcome in their own country and brings fear into their lives. ...
Police and prosecutorial misconduct along with Community and political pressure to solve a case are a couple examples off of the list of faults. A huge underlying issue that is too often overseen is the racial discrimination in the court room of minorities. ... What those both for and against Capital Punishment fail to see that Cholbi makes clear in his article is "neither side has recognized that racial discrimination creates not simply a judicial injustice to capital defendants but a social or political injustice to African-Americans as a class". ...
Other problems also include discrimination that takes place in court due to lack of research, systems being too ready to send juveniles over to the adult system and ignoring personality traits that form patterns, in order to better help the juveniles. ...
(Love) Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (once a supporter of executions) commented on the unfair application of capital punishment in the United States in 1994 saying, "I feel morally and intellectually obliged simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed The death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake From this date forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." ... They have no protection from the racial discrimination that occurs at every step of the process." ...
Capital punishment is a social institution whereby a goveronment punishes a certain crime by putting the offender to death. Killing is unethical. No person, state, or goveronment should have the right to decide whether a person lives or dies. " It is hypocritical for any society to cla...
It is the influences of British Law on Indigenous Australians post colonialism that have led to the genocide, oppression, racial discrimination, dispossession of land, high rates of incarceration and intergenerational trauma and disadvantages that have plague the Indigenous people of Australia for far too long. ... Furthermore the commission's view is that by recognising Aboriginal customary law and providing a role of cultural authority for elders it will help solve law and order issues in Aboriginal communities (http://www.Irc.justice.wa.gov.au). here are two basic tenets of the rule of...