Late Post: IV

In The Texas Tribune, there is an article that is about a proposed bill that entails how interrogations should be recorded. According to the author of this article, the recording would make cases (of lets say capital murder, human trafficking, etc) more concrete, more preserved, and any false confessions would be caught. I feel that Mr. Chammah did a great job composing this article, in the sense that he expressed the pros and cons of SB 87. He also featured commentary from the bill's proposers (ie Sen. Rodney Ellis) and it's nay-sayers (ie Sen Dan Patrick).

I also feel that this bill should pass mainly for the reason that the bigger crimes result in the death penalty, and too often are there people who either make false confessions or put to death and are actually innocent. People like Sen. Dan Patrick will say to just "trust the police", but the police are also human. We expect our judges, lawyers, and law enforcement to be perfect but in reality they are far from perfect like the rest of us. At least the recordings can bring the judges, the enforcers, the lawyers, the jurors, and the victims even more closer to what they want and look for -- the truth. They say that all acts done in the dark will eventually come to light, but in these crimes against society we can't just wait for justice to knock on our doors. Sometimes, we have to pursue justice ourselves, and that's the point of this bill.