Persuasive Essay On Criminal Justice

Martin Luther King Jr. states “the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that 's pretty important also." In this quote, Dr. Kings is referring to how biases the legal system is in the United State. His hope that one day the justice system will treat all man equal and race wouldn’t be a factor. However, African American and Hispanic are still being suppressed by the justice system. Police officers are still discriminating against minority and getting away with it. One can argued, that police are to be blamed for what is transpiring nowadays in our society. Furthermore, most of the riots emerged after an officer killed an individual and gets acquitted.

Therefore, officer shouldn’t be trail by the states prosecutors. As we have seen over and over they are frequently acquitted of all allegations form against them. Such cases should be handle

Most of these search arrests tend to be racial disparities against minorities. According to the fourth amendment “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly.” If the individual decides to turn down the search, police shouldn’t respond with violently towards the individual. Base on a study done in Chicago in 2013, “Blacks and Hispanic were four times more likely to be searched during a stop than Whites, and they were never told by police that can refuse to consent to the search (Tucker, E., & Duffy, J. 2015).” Police needs to be trained better which will allowed them to be able to tell when a search is legit and when its illegal. Furthermore, officer should be informative when conducting a search to ease the situation from escalating to the uses of excessive