In America, we are experiencing social issues with a cerain aspect of the government. Our country has always taken pride in its "outstanding" process of crime and punishment; however, there are still criminals on the street that have gotten away with their crimes. Some of these very criminals have made second and third offenses; this is disgracful. If our criminal justice system is allowing these criminals to slide through without punishment, then our country is not all that it's made out to be. Due to the softness of men in the leadership roles, we are allowing our country's innocent people to suffer at the hand of unpunished criminals. As of now, our country's legal system is not reliable, and no one can feel safe.
Criminals who have previously made offenses towards our citizens walk the streets of America, with no fear at all; they walk freely without even a cloak to hide their idenity. There are burglerers, rapists, abusers of children, kidnappers, and murderers who walk without a care in the world; and how does this affect our country's citizens? People live in fear; a single mother who lives alone with her two children in a big house must always wonder...A little girl who was raped three years ago must lay in her bed every night and wonder...A grown man who lost his best friend due to a hate crime must take the subway to work every day and wonder...will the person who did this awful crime ever be caught? Will they have to live in fear forrever that this person may come back? Our citizens should not have to go through this; it's not fair to them and they have suffered enough. But the problem is that when we think we have found the criminal that did that horrible crime, they are then put in front of a grand jury and the trial could go either way. We could end up letting the real criminal go. And then what would we be doing? We would be setting up the next person to be murdered or raped or mugged. This cannot happen, not in our country.
It is my proposition that we, as America, change our legal system thoroughly. If we were to make it law that anyone who was to be suspected of a major crime, that involved hurting other citizens, was given punishment, America would be a safer place. We should give anyone who is suspected by the detectives, who investigate a case, the same punishment that the real criminal would actually get. This way, we could be about 75% more sure that we caught the actual criminal. We wouldn't have to worrty that the guy slipped ;past the grand jury wth a tall tale of lies. I think this would be the best thing for America right now. We would no longer have to live in fear that these criminals who have become proffessionals at their craft, due to the fact that the have done it for so long and never been caught, would return. Then we could truly say America has Crime and Punishment.
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