Yesterday in issues class we had a special guest speaker who talked about his experiences with the justice, and how he was forced to sign a confession to a crime he did not commit. When he was being interviewed by the police in the investigation for the crime they had no leads on for 3 months. During these 3 months they pooled suspects together and interrogated them separately to try to extract all the information they could about this heinous crime. During one of those interrogations someone mentioned the speakers name as a possible suspect because they were looking to get their friend out of the hot seat for the crime. After taking him to the police station they verbally forced him to sign a confession by convincing him he would be set free after. 17 years later he still isn’t completely out of the woods yet, he still has to do some actions civilly to compensate him for all the years he has lost to this wrongful conviction. During this speech it really was a humbling experience because of my plans in the future to be in law enforcement. His man’s story has personally moved me to think more about how people in power can so easily take advantage of everything they have earned to promote themselves in their career. This speaker couldn’t have come at a better time, I have already committed to my school and I’m on the verge of graduating at Deerfield. I have always wanted to be the best police officer I could be, but now I feel as though I’m not just working for myself, but I’m also trying to change the bad reputation corruption has in the law enforcement community.
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