Prompt One: Asking Questions and Breaking Assumptions.

By: Cassy Rymas
Prompt #1


Going into the field of law there are many assumptions of the what is done and the personalities of the people who you see in uniform. I will be talking about criminal justice, more specifically law enforcement. Many people assume police officers, lawyers, and judges are “out to get them” or corrupt. This is due to television shows and movies. There’s always a bad cop, good cop type of roll.

source: The Town Crier

The media now, more than ever has a huge say on how one will view a police officer. Assumptions that are made, are that the individuals are racist, and want to put blacks away. However, this is false. while I'm sure there are some cops who are racist, not every cop is, and a cop can't actually lock someone up.

In my intro to criminal justice class, we learned about how there are many ways to enter and exit the criminal justice system. That means, if you make it all the way to trial, there’s most likely some good evidence against you. We also went over the main job of a prosecutor (this is what I am going to be), this girl behind me said: “the only thing a prosecutor wants to do is get em’ locked up.” I can personally say this is false, that’s not the goal I have, I intend to get the criminals off the street to make it safer for others. I also, want to get those criminals help, just because you broke the law doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. It means you’re headed down a bad path and just need some guidance. A prosecutor can decide what they want to ask for in sentencing, which means every prosecutor is going to ask for something different. Not every prosecutor is going to have the same end game of locking someone up.

 Another assumption that has no validity is that a girl crying to a cop has a better chance of getting let go.  When an insurance company did the research the findings showed that men are more likely to get out of a ticket than females. I personally have seen this, I know several males who have gotten multiple tickets and have gotten out of all of them, and then there’s me. I got one speeding ticket and didn’t even have a chance of getting out of it.

      Resouces : criminal justice book

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