Justice System
Our party believes that safety in our environment is a fundamental right. In order to achieve this our Justice System at all levels, national, state and local, needs to be responsible and accountable for the safety of the citizens. Our current system falls short of effectively executing laws to address the crime and violence at the national, state and local levels. For society to thrive safely the Justice system must be a reliable shield for the innocent and a consistent mechanism for accountability. True safety is achieved when the system itself is held to the same standard it enforces upon its citizens. The Restoration Party urges moving beyond reactive policing to a proactive “holistic “system of public safety.
The holistic system should be enhanced based on an equitable pathway for discipline, reform and rehabilitation and accountability that speaks to the value and respect for human life as well as a right to be safe. We believe the justice system needs to be firm but fair which eliminates the one size fits all. A firm and fair system of justice needs to execute laws that effectively address crime and violence at all levels, with consistency, expediency and equity
Under the equitable pathway principle, consistency does not mean harshness for all but rather a system that uses objective standards to ensure that the same crime and risk profiles result in the same responses.
In the context of equitable pathway, expediency will be the engine that makes justice meaningful. In our restored/reformed justice system, expediency is not moving faster, but removing the ‘structural rot” that causes bottlenecks, which often disproportionately affect those without resources to wait out a long battle and denies justice to the victim as well.