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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