God,when is sanity going to return to the justice system.
2007-12-17 08:43:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Ya, Brother. The words we use to address criminals keeps me up at night......No, Dude. I couldn't care less. They're about to rot in a cell for years and years. I'm supposed to care that we call him a gentleman first? I've got bigger fish to fry.
2007-12-17 08:52:56 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Convicted people are still people.
Sanity and the justice system have no business in the same sentence.
When I was treated to a stay in the county lock up for being assaulted, the officer on duty left me standing in handcuffs, having a panic attack, barely breathing, until a female officer could come to pat me down. My wrists were bruised from the handcuffs I was so panicked at being restrained after having just been assaulted.
When the female officer arrived, she asked where I was. Mind you, I was the only female in the room not in uniform. The POND SCUM who left me standing like that replied and I quote "IT is over there". I'm not an it and neither is any one else. Climb down off the high horses correction officers. You all have the same complex - you think you know me better than I know myself, and you obviously were asleep during the discussion of constitutional rights.
2007-12-17 18:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by .. .this can't be good 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, the subtle irony of the moment makes me laugh my heinie off.
We refer to the "scum" as "the gentleman"
We ALSO refer to our elected officials as "the gentleman representing ..."
The irony of referring to elected officials with the same term we use for pond scum is often more than I can bear without falling over laughing. Particularly since later it turns out that some of the elected officials really WERE pond scum.
2007-12-17 17:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by The_Doc_Man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That has probably been the tradition in our legal system and its predecessors since the 13th century, by the time of the Magna Carta, courts were starting to recognize the rights of defendants as human beings.
That was just about 800 years ago.
Just what prior time are you suggesting returning to? Something before that?
2007-12-17 16:50:23 · answer #4 · answered by Barry C 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i was once a corrections officer for 10 years. when addressing the inmates, i always called them gentlemen, not inmates, "scum", or any other derogatory term. i treated them as i expected to be treated, and addressed them as i expected to be addressed. i used to joke in the incoming process by asking if any of the gentlemen knew the difference between officers and inmates? the officers didnt get caught!
2007-12-17 16:56:16 · answer #5 · answered by outlaw_biker53 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how calling them by any other term changes anything. They're still convicted criminals, regardless of whether or not you address them as the scum of the Earth, or "your majesty".
2007-12-17 16:48:24 · answer #6 · answered by Pfo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when they get put down they are a number not ladies or gents.they lost that when they done the crime.
2007-12-19 10:18:59 · answer #7 · answered by country bumpkin [sheep nurse] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is all part of the rehabilitating of the criminal fraternity, before they are sent on a cruise for their crimes.
2007-12-18 08:29:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
outlawb said it best
2007-12-17 16:59:24 · answer #9 · answered by Not To Serious 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
jane
2007-12-17 17:17:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋