c-masterminds Springboard #4: No one is blind.
How do things like race, gender, age, social bracket, etc change a case? What will make you handle a case differently than normal? Is there anything you're particularly sensitive to? Why?
A case is just that, a case. Nothing should change it but, well, the case. It does not matter the race of the victim, or the age of the suspect. It matters that you find out who committed the crime and then see that they are brought to justice. Or at least as far towards justice as you can, that the right person is arrested and charged with the crime.
How rich they are, what age they are, or what race should not change any of this. If the evidence shows they have commited the crime, then so be it. If they have been a victim of a crime, they deserve justice and the best you can give no matter what race or sex they are.
I am told there are times I should handle a case differently but it does not happen often. I do not understand why a child commiting a crime should be seen differently than an adult, or why things should be handled different because the victim is one race and the person committing it another. Perhaps I should at times see that a child is not an adult and should not be treated as such. Or that the extentuating circumstances should matter.
There was one case where men were being killed because they might be another man. We brought his wife over from their native country to be reunited with him and we found he had remarried, assuming her dead. This case hit me harder than many because of seeing the love in her eyes, the way it seemed to change even her voice when she spoke of him and then to see her face when she found out he had even a child with his new wife and her leaving, knowing that. I am sensitive to love and it's motivations since then.
A case is just that, a case. Nothing should change it but, well, the case. It does not matter the race of the victim, or the age of the suspect. It matters that you find out who committed the crime and then see that they are brought to justice. Or at least as far towards justice as you can, that the right person is arrested and charged with the crime.
How rich they are, what age they are, or what race should not change any of this. If the evidence shows they have commited the crime, then so be it. If they have been a victim of a crime, they deserve justice and the best you can give no matter what race or sex they are.
I am told there are times I should handle a case differently but it does not happen often. I do not understand why a child commiting a crime should be seen differently than an adult, or why things should be handled different because the victim is one race and the person committing it another. Perhaps I should at times see that a child is not an adult and should not be treated as such. Or that the extentuating circumstances should matter.
There was one case where men were being killed because they might be another man. We brought his wife over from their native country to be reunited with him and we found he had remarried, assuming her dead. This case hit me harder than many because of seeing the love in her eyes, the way it seemed to change even her voice when she spoke of him and then to see her face when she found out he had even a child with his new wife and her leaving, knowing that. I am sensitive to love and it's motivations since then.