Teen beauty spot drinkers are ramblers, not rebels
- Dave Burrows
Leader: Soft justice has become national joke
Friday 25th November 2011, 12:45PM GMT.
Want a joke? Try British justice.
And while you may not find anything funny, violent criminals are laughing.
Police, courts, and jails are all treated with the same sneering contempt they have for their victims. And you can see why when you see the powder-puff treatment that is meted out to these thugs.
A 17-year-old who stabbed a man at Notting Hill carnival when he was already on bail for a previous vicious attack is likely to be released from custody after just two years behind bars.
Almost 30,000 serial offenders escape with a caution. A 16-year-old burglar asked to write to the victim took the opportunity to abuse them.
Instead of being contrite and remorseful, there is a hardened layer of criminality out there which sees a short spell inside – and it probably will be a short spell – as a badge of honour, a boost to their street cred, and part of their career path to become a gangster leader terrorising whomsoever they so wish.
Something or someone needs to make them think twice. It should be David Cameron and his sidekick Theresa May. Yet Mr Cameron has been a great disappointment. He is another showman politician in the Blair mould, a salesman with a great patter but never coming up with the goods.
He came to power on a promise to get to grips with law and order in our “broken society” but has done so many U-turns that it is difficult to know which way he will face next.
The way to deal with the crooks wrecking the lives of decent people is to give them a stay at Her Majesty’s Pleasure that is so long that they realise that British justice takes their crimes seriously.
So, Mr Cameron and Mrs May – are you serious about crime?
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NO they are just aware of how enormously expensive it is locking people up.
Next time we are burgled we will have to pay for the phone call to report it apparently.
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Eva, it is enormously expensive they way we lock people up because too many years of softly softly thug-hugging has made it so. There is no deterrent and as we keep hearing, many career criminals see the rare occasion of being put in jail as a respite, with hot food, free TV and all the other amenities many of our life long eaarning tax paying elderly can only dream.
If this country adopted the not very politically correct approach of using prison as a deterrent, i.e you will be locked up in shared cells, learn some discipline, no TV’s and X-boxes and made to work to earn money to compensate victims it would be a big step in the right direction – sadly our politicians are now petrified of even whispering such an approach out loud for fear of not only upsetting Brussels but also of being accused of pandering to the right wing brigades who incidentally are courting extra support from a very tired British public because of a very lack of this approach ….
Incidentally we’ve always paid to call the policed for non emergency matters. In the good old days we had a real local number to call our local police station, then they went to those 0845 (not really the same cost, actually more than calling a proper local number) numbers, then they brought in the 0300 number which was the first ‘free’ contact number in the sense that if you have inclusive minutes on you home or mobile phone it was included, and now there is the national 101 number which is a flat rate 15p, which depending on how long your call lasts, could actually cost you less than it did to call Dixon of Dock Green all those years ago.
Looking on the police website the 0300 number still exists so if you can, use that one and save the pennies …… you could donate them to the soon to be established ‘hard done by Billy burglar PlayStation fund’
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take away all their privileges too, stop making it so cushy for them.
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We should off-shore the prison service.
Great cost saving to the British taxpayer.
Criminal gets to do their time in a foreign prison where things are, say, not so concerned about Human rights.
We could even get them to walk and row their way there in return for a slightly shorter sentence.
They get fitter and get to travel.
It’s a Win-Win !
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Forced Labour Camps is the answer and stuff EU Human Rights!
Add up the cost of the crime, detection and court costs, then set them to work at minimum wage, deducting their cost for keep. Let them go when they have repaid for their crime.
Simple!
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