28 days for having a fishing knife

[barry luxton]

Whilst I take your point, I'm not sure this truly represents the point I was trying to make.

 

The US has had very punitive measures for many years but this has NOT acted as a deterent. The only thing that has made a difference is the US building lots more prisons, introducing the 3 strike rule and banging up all and sundry. Its made a huge impact to the crime rate, but NOT by way of deterent, only by way of punishment and removing potential criminals from the streets.

 

I doubt the UK could even afford such a policy shift.

 

They could have but they have spent our money on other things, like a massive increase in the public sector workforce, thousands of hospital managers, many, many government qangos, for example, three different offices to check thier expence list, that has got out of hand in any event, (failed) paper suffling on a massive scale with thousands of new laws in place that are un-policeable due to lack of funds, mp's expence accounts and blue chip pensions for the public sector, many with the retirement date five years under us ordinaries, who they are looking to extend our working lives upwards to pay for them. They did have three super max prisons on the order list, they was cancelled due to thier idea that they could spend our money on more important issues, examples as noted. Lack of monatory control that has put us as one of the leading nations in the worst place possible for recovery out of reccesion. Still the other choice that they have adopted, like releasing the likes of boy george out early after he has served just a third of his sentance for kidnap, torture of a rent boy appears to be the right approach, don't you think?

 

Any right minded scrote would certainly consider three strikes and your out rule as a deterant, so the ones who have ignored that bit of legislation are certainly in the right place, i.e. prison, best place for them, don't mind paying for that.

Edited May 12, 2009 by barry luxton