Building a new generation of public defenders | Jonathan Rapping | TEDxAtlanta
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2015
- Attorney Jonathan Rapping knows, “it’s really hard to be a caring lawyer. Caring is painful.” His organization, Gideon’s Promise, is inspiring a new generation of public defenders facing “the nation’s greatest civil rights issue today” - the tragic shortage of representation for those who can’t afford a lawyer.
Jonathan Rapping is strengthening public defenders and transforming public defense across the nation.
The 1963 Supreme Court ruling, Gideon V. Wainwright, mandated that poor people accused of crimes must be provided counsel if we are to live up to our nation's promise of equal justice. Today, however, our nation's jails and prisons are disproportionately populated with members of our most vulnerable communities due to structural, financial, and cultural challenges that have kept us from fulfilling this promise. Through Gideon’s Promise, Jon is building a new generation of public defenders to address these challenges and help shift the nation towards true equality in our justice system.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Mr. Rapping is a champion for the voiceless. I applaud him and his heroic public defenders for advocating for every day people. Keep up the good work!
Bravo to Mr. Rapping! If you want justice for yourself, then there must be justice for all.
Thanks to everyone involved with Gideon's Promise for the important work you do!
Everyone deserves a Lawyer for representation if can't afford a Lawyer,its suppose to be justice for all.Regardless of the ethics background, and majority of clients can't afford a Lawyer.
What a powerful message! Thank you Mr. Rapping for fighting against indifference in our criminal justice system.
We Have To Guard Against Indifference! - respect Jonathan. Respect! Thank you.
This is beyond true. I often lose site of why I went to law school. Always looking for ways to answer the question, how can I make the difference that I wanted to make in the system? The reason why I believed law school would help me attain such goal.
wow I hope I can be a part of his organization when Im done with law school
3 years ago you wrote this. What are you doing now?
@@JuanAlejandroLarronde shes probably in some corporate job making a boat load of money lol
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It's been 6 years now.
thank you, Jon for sharing this message!
I live in maine and we have no public defenders to help the people who can't afford to pay for legal services
I think I might want to become a public defender idk yet
We can change the status quo by doing something! Equal justice - the Civil Rights issue of today! Excellent!
This reminds me of something but I cant think of it right now. Very nice though! :)
TBH I feel if the public defender field was more attractive financially more of the talented/skilled/ higher potential law students would go into that. Or if law school was cheaper. I am sort of considering public defense rather then trial though my uncle is a pastor and our church is located in a poor area, I have experience preaching and reaching people there and seeing what people have to live through.... I have a passion to help souls IK I could do that with trial law but I could really reach the poor with PD. THe question though is financially would Public defense support me enough.
I do agree with the notion though that people should at least care and do what they can even if they aren't public defenders per say.
Its the impact you will have that will be more important. What have you decided?
The indifferent are indifferent to this message.
Rich people can get away with murder while the poor goes to jail for procession.
Cool channel
What blows me away listening to this now isn't the 2.5 hours per lawyer but the 1 investigator for 4000 cases, that guy must have the most miserable life of any human on the planet.
So now we agree on the problem, how do we fix it?
I want to know what happened to Alex, your client who was convicted.
Pharmacists and real doctors have to be through a program lasting up to 10 years maybe. Some of that training program is given away for free like some kind of guild maybe. You have to support yourself during that time maybe. At the end of that training program you might get a degree maybe. Is law school like that?
So comments are only allowed if the majority of people support a video?
Fantastic!
I apologize to Jonathan Rapping, because it is not his fault. But this video gets a dislike for censorship of other videos. It's the best way I can express my dissatisfaction.
Two students to whom I taught mathematics revealed to me that they wanted to be lawyers, and both gave the same explanation: that they were good bull-shitters.
Got milk? Think so🎪
So, the public has no defense against criminals anymore if the criminals can hire better lawyers that can actually change the law they get out of jail free card right?