Crime and Punishment

[nick]

Just seen a BBC programme about crime in Mexico and the endemic corruption of the police.An attempt was made at reform involving the use of Mayor Guilianni's team who reduced crime in New York by 60%.The experiment was doomed due to the cultural clash between American can doism and Mexican can't-do indifferentism.They made a few half-hearted stabs at reform and then reverted back to type like a dog returning to its vomit.

Despite the rather cynical jaundiced liberal BBC spin I did come away thinking that some countries like some individuals are beyond reform.How can you rehabilitate those whon have never been habilitated in the first place?For some you just have to throw away the key and don't waste any money on doomed experiments in social reform.

With the will of course zero tolerance does work as the Americans have proved with a crime rate reduced to early 1960's levels.It could work here too but instead of zero tolerance this government displays Nero tolerance - fiddling while the country burns.

[Rodeo]

Crime exists at all levels of every society and none are immune to the level that corruption exists either.

In another post I made mention that here in America "equality" simply does not exist and I can think of no better area of example than that of crime.

For fourteen years my professional experiences have permitted me to see first hand just how bias and prejudicial our systems of government truly are. In many respects we give the absolute bare minimum in legal representation and rights, in order to proclaim we are the best in the nation. But in reality it has nothing to do with "justice" or being the best or even in treating everyone equal in their rights. We design laws that are filled full of trickery so as to protect certain classes of criminals, while we reach out with a heavy hand against others who are seen as poor or ignorant in matters of law. We say "the system's not perfect" when screw up's are discovered, as though it somehow justifies what took place and our willingness to let certain criminals go or get off with lessor punishment. And it is not until the media focuses greatly upon an issue that it becomes "major" and ends in an equal heavy hand being applied...all in the name of justice.

Few laypeople are even aware of the many "affirmative defences" they could be giving when charged with a crime that would lend considerable favor to their claims of innocense or that would even permit the charges to be dismissed. And yet, we impose upon these same people the most absurd crap of all...."ignorance of the law is no excuse"......as a means to charge and convict certain classes of criminals.

The system is not the problem....by far the system is truly the best in the world. It is rather the corruption of man that makes the system a failure and destroys lives in the process.

[Simon666]

Originally posted by nick
With the will of course zero tolerance does work as the Americans have proved with a crime rate reduced to early 1960's levels.It could work here too but instead of zero tolerance this government displays Nero tolerance - fiddling while the country burns.
If you put the entire country in jail, there will even be no crime at all. You're close to reaching that objective. :D