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"Crime spoils our quality of living and incites fear into the hearts of many ordinary people!"
Their are a lot of problems with crime in our society. Many people feel that all to often the victims of crime are not given enough consideration whilst the criminals get off far too lightly. People are frightened to go out at night, and are intimidated by packs of disrespectful teenage kids, prowling the streets with nothing better to do. Parents are frightened to let their kids out of sight, and no one's property is sacred anymore.
Gone are the days when you could leave your back door open or the front door key on a piece of string behind the letterbox. Knife culture has risen to the point where teenagers are regularly killed on the street, shattering lives all around, and the government has done too little to prevent the rise of this, even though it has been prevalent and rising for years. The same trend is now taking place with guns.
The police are often far to nonchalant, too slow, or simply too busy to attend incidents, and their resources are becoming as stretched as the NHS in trying to cope with the onslaught. Many people feel that we could, and should, do better than we do, and it would be nice to think it is still possible to clean up our society and make a nicer place for all to live in.
There are many aspects of our society that need to change in order to reduce crime, and reverse what many see as a rising trend. And, there are some good ideas out there, but, getting society to act on them, well.... All we ever seem to get from the politicians is talk, and they're certainly good at that, but action and improvement? That appears to be a long way off!
Compulsory D.N.A. Registration
If we are serious about reducing crime in this country then this is an eventual, essential requirement. Not only will this measure reduce the incidence of sex crime, it will also significantly reduce all serious and violent crime, right across the board. Along with the registration of all UK residents should perhaps also be a requirement to register all visitors to the UK, so as to help eradicate illegal immigration
and the terrorist threat.
Death Penalty For Child Sex Murderers
There should be no room in our society for people who abduct and
murder children. In fact, any sort of sex crime that results in the victim being ultimately murdered should be punishable
by death. Money that could be far better spent should not be wasted on keeping people that commit these sorts of crimes in
five star prison comfort. Where there is indisputable DNA evidence the solution should be simple and final. Many people would
in fact like to see the reinstatement of the death penalty for all cold blooded and premeditated murder where the evidence
is indisputable. The advantages are that it would make people think twice before committing such crimes and would, therefore,
help to make society a safer place for the innocent, as well as save considerable amounts of money for the tax-payer.
Dealing With Paedophiles
Eight children a year die as a result of sexual predators, and one in nine children suffer some form of sexual or physical abuse. Listed here are a number of measures that would help to reduce these statistics by adding towards ensuring that our children are removed from the dangers of having paedophiles living within their community.
Stop And Scan
A suggestion to supply the police with handheld metal detectors so that they can stop and
scan young people in the streets for knives and other offensive weapons. Unfortunately, for many young people, carrying knives has become cool and fashionable and is often the norm. If someone carries a knife, in the heat of a moment, when emotions are running high, it is quite possible that they may use it. Let's not forget that when a young person fatally stabs another young person, it is not just the tragic loss of the life of the victim, and the impact on their friends and family, that is the issue. The perpetrator is a victim also! Their life is equally ruined because they were guided no better. We have a responsibility to all young people, to educate and protect them, show them right and wrong, penalize them suitably where necessary, and help them avoid making the kind of mistakes that result in them expressing regret for the rest of their lives, to say nothing of the person that loses their life and the loss to their family. The Government should have been dealing with this problem years ago, and has done nothing. It certainly needs to do more about this problem now, because, like many problems, if it is not addressed, it will not go away on its own! The list of victims simply grows and grows! Police are now currently seizing something like four hundred fire-arms a month from the streets of London alone, one-hundred per week. These weapons range from pistols and sawn-off shotguns to semi-automatic and automatic machine guns. The same trend that has led to the proliferation of knives in the street is now happening with guns. When will we learn and when will the Government act?
Stiffer Penalties For Kids Carrying Knives And Guns
Penalties for being armed with knives or guns need to be stiff enough to get the message across and stop kids from taking the risk of carrying such potentially lethal weapons in the first place. For carrying a knife, say two months at boot camp. For carrying a gun, say six months. In tandem with regular stopping and scanning of young people, this may be enough to get the message across. There definately needs to be something in place that is a very serious deterrent, because, even this is nothing compared to the possible consequences for both perpetrator and victim, as well as their families, of somebody using one or the other on another teenager. This kind of problem needs to be nipped it in the bud, literally, otherwise the cost in human suffering as well as tax-payers' revenue is much greater in the long run! It costs £500 to £1000 a week on average to keep an offender in prison. A teenager's life, wasted because someone was allowed to carry a knife, can never be reclaimed or compensated for. Every fatal stabbing means two more lives wasted, immeasurable grief and anguish to the families involved and hundreds of thousands of pounds of outlay for the tax-payer, all because society failed to act and get the message across that carrying lethal weapons will not be tolerated!
More Rights For Victims
People such as Tony Martin, for instance. Most people believe that if someone
breaks into your home and gets shot then tough. A man should have the right to defend his home and his property and his family,
just in the same way that the Government maintains the right to defend this country. What is amazing also, is that someone
like Kenneth Noye is allowed to get away with stabbing an unarmed undercover policeman to death in a somewhat frenzied attack,
when the policeman was posing no threat and was only in Kenneth Noye's garden, and yet, Tony Martin can be crushed by the
system for simply defending himself against intruders actually inside his own home.
Less Fuss About Rights For Criminals
Don't we all get fed up with criminals going on about their rights. If you are a criminal and you do not respect the rights of others, you, likewise, do not deserve to have your own rights respected. Finish and end of it!
A Call To Make All Prisons Self-Sufficient
A call to make all prisons self-sufficient and self-funding, such that all inmates are able to earn their keep. No one inside should be getting a free meal ticket at the tax-payer's expense and it is rather paradoxical that the good in our society are expected to slave away, many struggling and going short of what they need, whilst the criminal fraternity get a free and easy ride inside, being accommodated, fed and watered at the expense of the just and hard working.
Re-localization Of Police Emergency Call Centres
A call to be connected straight to your local police station in an emergency and therefore be able to speak to someone who knows the area you are calling from. Also to save time
by having calling numbers logged automatically instead of relayed by the operator. At the moment, the process of calling the
police in an emergency seems to be far too long winded. After calling 999, the operator asks which service, and when you ask
for the police they connect you to Scotland Yard. When someone answers at Scotland Yard more time is wasted while the operator
relays the phone number you are calling from, a job that should be done automatically by now. When you are finally connected
to a police officer you can then explain the problem. However, the person you are connected to is in a call centre, miles
away, and does not know the area you are calling from. More time is therefore wasted while you try and explain where the problem
is taking place and where it is near. The person you are talking to has to log the information and when they are satisfied
they will then have to contact your local police station to get someone to attend the problem. It would be much quicker just
to be connected to your local police station, and someone who knows the area, in the first place.
Boot Camps For Persistent Young Offenders
For far too long now persistent young offenders have been getting
away with crime after crime and literally sticking their fingers up to the law and the rest of society in the process. At the moment, there seems to be nothing between a slap on the wrist, which seems to do little to put young offenders off, and doing hard time. By the time they incur
this measure, they usually have a long string of convictions, and are well on the road to being hardened criminals and a complete pain in the backside, having caused a lot of misery and upset to other members of society along the way. Boot camps are
a proven way of instilling some respect and imparting a degree of education and positive conditioning with regard to some
of the concepts necessary to be a decent fit and healthy member of society. Action needs to be taken sooner with persistent offenders to recondition them and get them back into a decent groove. The thing is, boot
camps along with their regime of discipline actually do seem to work and could provide the help and enlightenment that such persistent young offenders could really benefit from. Let's not forget, it's not just our future that benefits greatly from a diminishment of such persistent offences, it's theirs as well.
How Low Can You Get!
Some people have sunk so low in our society, they think it's ok to con, and steal from, our elderly folk. This is a very sad state of affairs and perhaps an indictment of many things that are wrong in the way we manage our affairs!
More Community Service
It would be nice to see persistent young offenders helping society in a more productive
fashion by helping to clean up the litter from our streets, or similar, as a part of their punishment. It worked for many children at school in the past. Naughty pupils were put on playground litter duty and the playground was tidier for it. Likewise, one cannot argue that our streets don't need it. I you think there's any doubt about that, check out the waste and recycling section to see the litter problems compounded by the current refuse policies, to say nothing of your everyday litter dropped out of car windows and casually discarded by the public, as if they are living in a giant dump. Perhaps they think they are!
Adjusting The Balance
The way our society is currently structured it is quite apparent to many people
that, in many areas, the current balance of the equation is too far in favour of the criminal and the wrong doer. Especially
young offenders. This obviously gives out completely the wrong message. If we want our society to be a fitter and healthier
place for our children, we must act accordingly. At the moment, society gives the wrong message to too many people, who currently then
think that they can commit what crime they like and get away with it, or at least, get off relatively lightly.
C.C.T.V. For Local Streets
An idea for local residents to be able to monitor their own streets through
strategically placed cameras that can be monitored on a normal TV or computer monitor, etc. Once the system has been developed
it will mean that residents will be able to monitor their own streets with an expanded version of neighbourhood watch. Any
resident in the street will be able to tune in and help to keep an eye on things. Such an investment would greatly reduce
crime and would therefore, in the long run, pay for itself by affording a reduction in demand on police and judicial resources
as well as a saving for residents and insurance companies.
Castration For Paedophiles And Serial Sex Offenders
As an alternative, many people feel that if paedophiles
wish to remain within the community they should, along with serial sex offenders, be castrated so as to remove any uncontrollable
and potentially dangerous urges. In fact, some offenders, acknowledging that they have a problem, have requested this procedure
only to be told that the state cannot oblige them. How ridiculous is that?
Curfew For Young People
A suggestion to institute a curfew on children under the age of eighteen, at
least in problem areas, so as to get them off of the streets at night, where all too often they are the cause of intimidation and trouble.
Limit Child Congregation
A suggestion to make it illegal for young people to hang around the streets
in groups larger than three or four and to introduce a protocol for police to break up such large groups. It is often the
fact that children are in large groups that they then exhibit a 'pack animal mentality' leading them into trouble that they
would otherwise not have been caught up in. They also, at such times, often behave in an intimidating fashion towards other
citizens.
Not Enough Trained Police Officers
It's the same old story isn't it? There just are not enough trained
police officers to attend to all the problems. So as not to be under any illusion, we are talking about considerably serious
problems such as fights, knife attacks, car thefts and violent outbursts, as well as a myriad of minor problems, that nevertheless
cause members of the public considerable inconvenience and grief, such as teenagers spraying graffiti, or
being rowdy and causing a disturbance, or perhaps intimidating people on the bus. The sad fact is that, even if you catch
them in the act and call the police, all too often you'll be told, sorry we are really busy tonight and do not have
enough officers to attend. No wonder things are getting worse. This kind of problem seems to be all too common now. This means three things. 1) A bad upbringing for the offenders resulting in a considerable lack of respect. 2) A lack of suitable consequences and consequences too weak to
put them off doing such things. 3) Not enough people available on patrol to deter or catch the people who offend. All of
these things work against us, preventing us from achieving the well ordered, safe society that the public want. It simply gives out the wrong message and does nothing to discourage people from going down the wrong road.
Abolish Traffic Wardens and Provide More Policemen and Women Instead
There are never enough policemen
and women when you need them. Why? Good question! However, we seem to have plenty of traffic wardens making people's lives
a misery. Good decent people just trying to go about their business are hassled and mugged by traffic wardens left, right
and centre. Traffic wardens are malevolent and inconsiderate. They are like heartless robots soullessly searching for people
breaking certain criteria, and whether it makes sense or not, penalizing the person regardless. Nobody likes traffic wardens.
So here it is then, let's get rid of all the traffic wardens who are sneaky, petty and spiteful, and certainly one of God's
more abominable creations, and finance some more trained police officers. As far as the majority of us are concerned, this
would be much more worthwhile and lead to an instant improvement in our society and in people's quality of life. Let's vote
on it!
Abolish Double Jeopardy
Where the weight of evidence is insufficient to secure a prosecution, but it later becomes very evident that the person on trial was guilty of the said crime, there is no doubt that the law should permit a retrial and a further prosecution of the guilty party. The double jeopardy law, which rules out trying somebody for the same crime twice, even though it may become evident beyond possible doubt that the person was guilty, is a ridiculous piece of legislation that dates back eight hundred years. It is not appropriate to a modern, fair and efficient legal system and obviously needs to be changed.
Just Because It Is The Law Doesn't Mean It Is Always Right!
Just because it is the law, does not mean that it is right! Listed here are some examples of the law that, at the time, people perhaps thought
were right, however, now we can patently see that they were not.
People Do Because They Can
Let us not forget that the main reason people commit crime, is because they think they can get away with it, or get off lightly. It is a general belief of many people that, in today's society, there is far too much leniency and consideration for the criminals and not enough consideration for the victims.