Monday 15 December 2014

#Twisted Laws

If you get involved with the police - perhaps as a witness or victim of crime or you are detained, arrested and/or taken to a police station. The police may question you about the crime you’re suspected of - this will be recorded. Have we thought about all the victims & suspects in the right light, while making our laws for our flawless system.

The legal system often has difficulty in dealing with people who have disabilities, particularly where those disabilities involve some form of mental impairment. If a person with a mental illness or intellectual disability has been charged with a crime, specific laws and procedures still seem short in valuing them in the right way.

Do we have any different set of rules while making arrest for the handicaps? Did you realize the laws which are made are short in making the end meets in the right way. I have come across several brutal instances all over the world, where without any prior information a deaf or a blind person has not been understood with his weakness to understand or see the called action asked by the police. Which in turn without wait & watch have been proactive in gunning down a suspect. Leading to a never ending gap between the police & public, which seems to be growing with time instead of mending & melting. The police nor the public nobody is wrong, only laws which are made are being followed blindly even when we see flaws in it.

Did you realize if a person has headsets on his ears & dark glasses on his eyes, comes under your radar of suspect with incomplete information you after some loud announcements keeping you proximity far could end up gunning him down. Only to regret later that he was a blind, or blind & deaf or could be a normal person not on the wavelength of your understanding. The laws followed does not only have gaps but wide gaps. Instead of following a protocol with no eyes give it eyes of an eagle. Which can see as far & beneath like the bird. When a person is a suspect & has no ammunition, make changes in your protocol by making thumb impression as a rule, which gives out instant details with in a click of a second. Giving a chance to save lot of face & with lot of grace in the whole situation.


The challenges which we face in our system are many. Some solutions which are visible should be activated at lightning speed, rest will surely come along too.

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