Show Tears The courts are overloaded the prisons are overcrowded the Police are undermanned and the law cannot expediently or equally hold court or keep the convicted in confinement Knowing that many of our laws are outdated and the penal and judicial system is not working our government has procrastinated and failed to do anything about it Crime and injustice has been accepted by the government and the people as a way of l life e. e Is the law really a crime deterrent deterrent deterrent deter deter- rent or a frustrating means of control We the people have become totally lost and overwhelmed by the injustice and crime around us Seeing our leaders taking active parts in crime cannot but leave us empty but full of despair without any hope for the future Its It's time the people say We no longer will tolerate crime or injustice This nation is years old with the same year old lem We have the knowledge and the best minds in the world to abolish our ineffective judicial judicial judicial ju ju- and penal system We must sit down devise and implement implement implement im im- a system that works As students of Utah Technical College we are striving to improve and design better lives for ourselves Many look toward the day of having a good job starting a family and functioning functioning functioning function function- ing as an asset to society All those dreams and visions of happiness can abruptly vanish when you fall victim to a crime Statistics show that one out of every three people in the United States will be involved in a major crime during their lives If we accept these statistics and dont don't really worry then we also accept them for our child child- ren We can put a man on the moon but we cant can't take a walk through Central Park after dark |