Police Equality And Justice
The state has an independent authority to govern itself and the mandate to govern and protect its citizens. The law enforcement officers are the agents of enforcing the law, and the police play a very significant role in promoting peace. There are policies that guide how the police maintain law and order and which describe the growing series of actions that an officer can take when resolving a situation. These policies recognize the rights of the people, and that the police have the instruction to respect them even when enforcing law and order. Despite that the police have authority over the common person, they do not have the right to use this authority to harm them. However, the authority of the police has remained one of the most misunderstood
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While police officers are supposed to police all people equality, the two cases gave insights that there is a group that is inferior to the other and whose members have a life less worth than that of the others. It left people thinking that blacks are at a greater risk of being shot by the police than their white counterparts (Wheeler, 469). While the authorities dispute this, the common person judges that excessive forces was used in these case and the police officers involved had to be prosecuted for manslaughter and homicide. It is evident that Garner was unarmed so there was no justification for the police officer to chock him while trying to arrest him. He was even heard telling the police officer that he was unable to breathe, so ruling out that the police officer did not know whether he was chocking him is out of question. The same case applies to the second officer who killed Brown. It was manslaughter to kill the boy when he was not armed. The question remains on why the police officers were found innocent while they had …show more content…
The question of justice and equality also applies when gender is involved. According to Mcall (p.75), both institutional and gender models play a very significant role in determining the outcomes of a ruling and this brings the question on whether justice and equality is guaranteed in such cases. He notes that female justices might not be single-handedly effective in implementing policies as explained by the gender theories. This shows that, when measuring whether equality or justice was applied in a case, the gender of the judges also play a role. So, doe this mean that the female gender impairs justice and upholding equality when ruling cases and what determines these factors whenever a female judge is
While police officers are supposed to police all people equality, the two cases gave insights that there is a group that is inferior to the other and whose members have a life less worth than that of the others. It left people thinking that blacks are at a greater risk of being shot by the police than their white counterparts (Wheeler, 469). While the authorities dispute this, the common person judges that excessive forces was used in these case and the police officers involved had to be prosecuted for manslaughter and homicide. It is evident that Garner was unarmed so there was no justification for the police officer to chock him while trying to arrest him. He was even heard telling the police officer that he was unable to breathe, so ruling out that the police officer did not know whether he was chocking him is out of question. The same case applies to the second officer who killed Brown. It was manslaughter to kill the boy when he was not armed. The question remains on why the police officers were found innocent while they had …show more content…
The question of justice and equality also applies when gender is involved. According to Mcall (p.75), both institutional and gender models play a very significant role in determining the outcomes of a ruling and this brings the question on whether justice and equality is guaranteed in such cases. He notes that female justices might not be single-handedly effective in implementing policies as explained by the gender theories. This shows that, when measuring whether equality or justice was applied in a case, the gender of the judges also play a role. So, doe this mean that the female gender impairs justice and upholding equality when ruling cases and what determines these factors whenever a female judge is