While it isn’t a scientific poll by any means, 93% of ppl taking the on line poll think this is totally stupid. Bizarre. Wrong. But hey … they’re only The Public whose job it is to pay taxes that fund the authorities that shit all over The Public!
Let me give you one example of just how far stupid can be carried.
It’s all over today’s papers how a woman who murdered her ex-lover wasn’t considered a threat and so was sent to a minimum security prison.
Well, she didn’t like that prison because it was too far away from family and friends, and so she asked for and got a transfer to a jail more to her liking. Have I mentioned that the keystone kops are now looking for her?
Yeah … she did a runner. She’s out there, somewhere.
Imagine that will ya. Here the nice prison people trusted her and what did she do? Why ,,, she acted just like … Oh. Right. A criminal. Fancy that.
Offenders can avoid prosecution by giving flowers to their victim
By Rebecca Camber
Last updated at 10:40 AM on 24th November 2009
Shoplifters, vandals and burglars are being told by police to say sorry with a bunch of flowers to avoid prosecution.
Police are dealing with thousands of crimes by telling offenders to write letters of apology to the victim or face court.
Offences including common assault, theft, burglary, criminal damage and vandalism which would ordinarily mean a jail sentence, fine or caution are instead being resolved by a gift to the victim such as bunch of flowers or a box of chocolates to make amends.Police say the ‘common-sense community resolution’ to anti-social behaviour and low-level crime saves police time and could save forces and the criminal courts millions of pounds.
But critics have accused police of undermining the criminal justice system, saying crimes should be dealt with by magistrates rather than ad-hoc penalties devised by individual officers.
They are also concerns that an offender can escape having a criminal record if they agree to apologise and repair any damage or refund what was stolen.
The scheme being trialled by a dozen forces around the UK has been compared to a 21st century version of Dixon of Dock Green policing, with beat bobbies exercising their own judgment like the much-loved character from the TV series, Constable George Dixon.
The officer leading the experiment, Chris Sims, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, said yesterday his officers were administering ‘a moral clip round the ear’ to offenders.
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