8 Weeks of Ethics in Criminal Justice

Today is my final class in the Ethics in Criminal Justice course. I remember a saying from a few years ago,
All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten.  Well I kind of feel like that about my Ethics class.

When I first entered Shaw University in the late 1970's thinking I was going to be a lawyer and fight the injustices in criminal justice way back in the 70's, one of my first courses was Ethics in Criminal Justice.  I learned about un-ethical practices criminal justice.

I returned to college Fayetteville State University in the 90's to complete  BS in criminal in criminal justice that I started back in the 70's, I had  to take an ethics in criminal justices again and now  in the year 2014 in a Saint Leo University Master's program in criminal justice, I am taking another class in Ethics in Criminal Justice. 

So what I have I learned that I did not know when I started in this class?  Nothing new.

 The Ethics course confirmed there is still police brutality and  racism in criminal justice, more black men are still in jail and still going to jail faster than any other race, more black men are on death row, black men go to jail for small amounts of drugs when white men go free. the American Criminal Justice System, is  still not fair or just for people of color and the poor. our Criminal Justice is a system that need to be overhauled.  Every judge on the bench from the Supreme Court on down need to take a series of fair and impartial sentencing and diversity training.  Every lawyer need to take diversity training and how to counsel/ represent African Americans.  The death penalty needs to be abolished, and instead of sending people to jail on these permanent vacation at the taxpayers expense we should provide more educational and vocational training programs, make the criminals work and pay restitution.  Overall it was a good class with good professor and some very intelligent classmates.

NO MORE BLOGS!!!!!!

“It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten