Justice and vengeance typically become blurred in the eyes of society. When a crime happens—especially a violent one—we want results and we want them yesterday. The public outcry goes out and everything the police and DA say and do is subject to the highly unobjective magnifying lens of the media. We want somebody to pay; we want the person caught so we can believe the world is a safe place once again. So the question becomes, what role does the law serve in all of this? Is it in place to protect the public or the individual? In an ideal world, that question would never need to be asked, but as film noir movies so effectively point out—this is not an ideal world. »»
