Justice-is it being served fairly ?

Besides other duties, my previous employment incorporated other obligations such as assisting law enforcement entities to identify irregularities, take appropriate action, maintain control and protect citizens.

It’s quite a satisfying job even though you’re always at risk to become a victim yourself having so many crooked people around.

You will encounter different cases, from a simple unpaid fine to rape, money laundering, human trafficking, fraud, terrorism, and an endless list of wrongdoings….. each case having its degree of sensitivity.

However, what bothered me too much, was that particular cases weren’t handled with the proper attention as required even though these presented a serious situation whereas at times would also leave innocent people so much hurt without justice being served.

Unfortunately, you will find certain let’s say distinct individuals who despite their oath and obligations to enforce justice, refrain from, doing so and in worst scenarios even become accomplices of crime themselves. Being for money, ego, power, or fear, it doesn’t matter as long as they keep their positions with such an attractive income. Most often you would have more than one individual of this kind participating in a particular case, someone may be a police officer, another would be a lawyer or a consultant, a political figure and to the extreme that person who has the jurisdiction of judging others. It’s like ‘ scratch my back so I’ll scratch yours situation.

At times, many victims who have to go to court as they seek justice, do not even know that their lawyer already agreed with the opposing lawyer in a meeting over a cup of coffee before a sitting, which agreement satisfies both lawyers’ future encounters that can render more income from the other clients.

In some court sittings, there were also accused and framed innocent victims who weren’t even allowed to relate their version of the story and wrongfully judged for things they did not do. An individual having this experience told me once that not even in war such things happen as when you are caught, you will be tied up, put on your knees but at least asked to say your last words before being shot dead! Another quoted a saying which stated ‘ when injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. This made me think. Can certain individuals who loose their trust in these entities of justice eventually take the law into their own hands? They become criminals because they are forged from the same people who should fairly fight crime…..may God have mercy!

On the other hand, we will have people that fall into a state of depression, loosing faith and hope knowing that justice, something they believed in, betrayed them. Either way, becoming a rebel or a depressed person is wrong and which makes it worse, both derived from what should be a fair virtue.

The symbol of justice is a blindfolded woman as she should not have any preferences whatsoever, a sword in one hand to fight crime and a balance on the other to maintain equality. The other version states that being blindfolded, she is not able to see the whole picture, uses the sword to slay the innocent before unveiling the truth and the balance helps to keep corruption in equilibrium according to the funds earned.

May true justice be restored!