Pt1420 Unit 6 Paper

1. The state of Florida is amongst 16 other states that selects judges through the method “appointment-retention election”. A method in which a proposing group shows names to the governor, who then makes the appointment; appointees need to win a retention vote in the next election. It is not necessarily a good system because the selection is placed in the hands of the judges or attorneys who comprise the nominating committee and the governor, with only a impression of voter input. Reorganizers argue that the plan eliminate judges from politics and saves the electorate the problem of voting on judicial candidates when they know little about their professional qualifications.

2. The “Broken Windows” strategy brought to New York by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was a theory that general crime rates can be reduced by severely applying laws against petty offenses. This in turn leads into more arrests, which I believe adds more problems rather than solves them. As a contrast to community policing which is more effective. Due to getting to understand the community and knowing where large areas of crime taking place. Also recognizing individuals in the streets and winning over their confidence and respect.
The arguments for the death penalty consists of Americans feeling a strong sense of justice that demands retribution for heinous crimes, or ‘a life for a life’. The death penalty shows that society doesn’t excuse the taking of innocent lives and that a jail sentence for murder wouldn’t be suffice for the life of an innocent victim. Arguments against the death penalty involve people who believe it is applied unequally, because a large proportion of those executed have been poor, uneducated, and nonwhite. My outlook on it is that I’m in-between the death penalty, yes I understand that a murder should be able to live on this Earth, but having to kill by something like legal injection is an unusual