The legislative and executive branches of government agencies and their departments have an important role and power to protect public and enforce laws.
In Kristin Gardner’s case, law enforcement and court’s goal or mission should have been to protect Kristin and the public, and to have better communication with one another. Instead a young woman had to lose her life for the public administrators to develop a goal or mission that can protect public even though they had absolute power to do this prior to Kristin’s death.
If the judicial system exercised their power and sentenced Cartier to the full extent of the law, he would never have been able to murder Kristin. Cartier had already been charged with animal cruelty, violation of probation, stalking, and assault and battery. Instead of punishing Cartier, the judicial system just kept giving him small sentences in jail or probation. They never prosecuted him for all the crimes that he committed which was absurd when they have the power to enforce law.
Police power is exercised by the legislative and executive branches of the various states through the enactment and enforcement of laws, but did they really exercise that power? Law enforcement officials did not communicate with the surrounding…show more content… Judges sometimes will not send abusers to jail, because they do not want to break up the family or send the main income earner to jail, which might leave the family without an income to support their living. Judges need training because many may be unaware of the effects of domestic violence as well barriers in the legal system that impede victims. (htt). Repeated abusers or victims, often get back together after going through process of arrests and court hearings
