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Justice

The Court’s authority—possessed of neither the purse nor the sword—ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions.

The issue of justice is complex and any effort to deduce whether justice in the U.S. is fair or foul not an easy one. When the issue of justice is race and traffic stops, many individuals in the U.S. are divided as to whether justice is fair. Typically, law enforcement agencies, some legislators and those who support them believe traffic stops are made based on actions not skin color. However, also as typically, minorities, groups like the ACLU who support justice, and some legislators and those who support them believe traffic stops are subject to racism and the color of a driver’s skin. The debate has become so entrenched in the national consciousness and vocal on both sides of the issue, that many state governments and the federal government have proposed or passed legislation. Some of this legislation is aimed at eliminating race as an aspect of traffic stops, while other legislation is devoted to giving police more power to stop and search drivers. When it comes to justice being fair on this issue, does race play a role in traffic stops? Many blacks and Latinos contend they are regularly pulled over by police officers with their only crime being their race and the color of their skin. Law enforcement agents argue actions not skin color prompt traffic stops. The following three viewpoints from three different articles offer a deeper insight into this question of justice.

VIEWPOINT ONE (Driving While Black; Where’s the Crime?)

This article is a transcript of the CBS Morning Show. Appearing on the show were Robert Scully, head of the National Association of Police Organizations, and Christopher Darden, former prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson trial and supporter of the ACLU position on race and traffic stops. This article is excellent as the first to study justice on...

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Justice. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 09:07, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1685789.html