Question

Read the excerpt from "Wrongful Convictions” by John R. Firman.

We look at police organizational culture all the time. We are fairly positive about that culture. . . . [However,] if you have invested in your general direction of a case, then the information coming over here from another direction has to be just as interesting to you, just as important to you as that that you’ve been working on over here. . . .

Preventing and correcting. There was also a clear drive at the summit to say, "Let’s prevent as much as we can, but let us go back and correct when we need to.” The last thing and fairly obvious was, the justice system begins with law enforcement. . . . So law enforcement is in the position to be at the very front of the continuum, so responsibility rests with law enforcement, certainly to start that process. And if they have started that process incorrectly, erroneously for whatever reason, it’s going to process through the rest of the system in a troublesome way.

Which detail from the excerpt best supports the claim that it is impossible to change the justice system without changing policing?

“We look at police organizational culture all the time. We are fairly positive about that culture.”
“There was also a clear drive at the summit to say, ‘Let’s prevent as much as we can, but let us go back and correct when we need to.’”
“[However,] if you have invested in your general direction of a case, then the information coming over here from another direction has to be just as interesting to you.”
“So law enforcement is in the position to be at the very front of the continuum, so responsibility rests with law enforcement, certainly to start that process.”

Answer 1

“So law enforcement is in the position to be at the very front of the continuum, so responsibility rests with law enforcement, certainly to start that process.”

Explanation: This sentence directly states that law enforcement initiates the justice process and therefore must change for the broader system to change.