Robert E. Worden's Unfair

Police officers are vital in our everyday lives because they’re known and serve as reliable forces that aid in protecting our rights and ultimately, our lives. Law enforcement, and police officers in particular, have secured a lot of media coverage recently because there have been multiple cases where through excessive force, police have fatally shot and killed civilians. While it may be known for police to do this if it is necessary and for their own safety, some specific stories have been globally exerted because of the unlawful reason behind the killing and verdict of the police officers at fault. In a book assessing criminal justice, Robert E. Worden believes that on a theoretical standpoint, there are situational factors that are the cues
In the book Unfair by Adam Benforado he states that “the labels we give victims can make a big difference in how their cases are handled.” When it comes down to it, labels are used as a factor when determining most cases and even when police decide how they want to go about the situation. Like the title of the book, it is unfair that life and death situations are handled in this way. It is unjust to chose how to deal with something based on irrelevant things like race, wealth, age, or sex. In America, the amount of the population of minorities are continuously growing and because of that, the majority race may begin to feel threatened. It seems as if caucasians, and in this case caucasians police officers, discern an increasing threat to to their economical and political footing. This may insinuate the thought that they are fighting a war on crime against specific demographical citizens. In his book, Benforado describes the story of a man named David who died because of the neglect of the ambulance (10). David died because of assumptions from the ambulance. The case was quickly judged as a man who had excessive alcohol in his system when he actually was suffering of brain damage due to being robbed and attacked in his neighborhood. His neighbor Jerry, uninformed of the
Seeing this happening begins a collective fear of our law enforcement which can lead to mistrust and separation of hope. According to an L.A. Times article, in Inglewood, a city located inside of Los Angeles County, California, residents were beginning to get tired of treatment by police and began to call and complain to the U.S. Department of Justice in order to demand reform. A Times investigation found that Inglewood officers repeatedly resorted to physical or deadly force against unarmed suspects (Kim et al.). When further investigation was demanded and started, they noticed that “The agency's rules on using deadly force are vague and inconsistent with U.S. Supreme Court guidelines” (Kim et al.). This demonstrates that there is a clear correlation between outdated reforms and the excessive use of force. Police who perform these acts can be deemed protected because the policies and procedures are not available and reasonable to the currents things that are happening in today's society. The policy is vividly failing our citizens and it is resulting in people being killed for reasons farther than they can control. It all comes down to rules and regulations. If those are wrong and not updated, then that will be on the hands of the people who follow them, which is in this case the