No Cosmo, it is just fine. Our weak liberal judicial system however cannot do the math, and look what happened. This is why if I were to ever appoint judges, I would use a litmus test. No bleeding hearts allowed in for starters.
We have the largest prison population in the world, and use incarceration more frequently than much of the world. Our per capita rate is also the highest in the world.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/highest_to_lowest_rates.html
Now some places have tried to have a zero tolerance, kill them all, and make them productive in the meantime policy. Nazi Germany is a good example. Very bad place to be a criminal. But if you only care about statistics, that would be one of the more effective examples. Humane and ethical has to come into question. Don't forget at any time you could suddenly become one of the criminals yourself. What do you think would happen when they come for your guns if you resist? If you survive they will lock you away and throw away the key in the system that you encouraged to exist.
What if you defend yourself in a just shoot, but the jury, which is just a random number of people does not see it that way in your future? I bet you would want it to be fairly humane in those circumstances.
Creating a police state where anyone that steps out of line can be thrown away forever is not going to safegaurd your freedom or safety either. Just give you another danger to be concerned about.
The truth is the amount of violent criminals, nevermind all criminals, is so large that locking them all up is impractical. Making them somewhat behave while locked up requires decent incentive. Keeping track and have the right to follow them around and keep tabs on them when they get out requires releasing them while they still have time over thier heads so they can be detained at anyone's discretion for questionable yet legal activities and told what to do.
These two individuals were not even violent criminals according to the information above prior to this. They were burglars, a non violent offense.
There is a reason why they have good time, and why they have parole. It is not just a reward, but a way to allow greater control over the individuals that are seen to pose less risk when they are released, as some have to be released.
If they are not paroled, then they get out and disappear with no oversight, and no accountability to anyone. It is just at a later date.
When good time only is for a very small % of the sentence, it stops serving as incentive whatsoever and they don't behave, don't let the small percent trying to change do so, and in general become worse while locked up.
The truth is you cannot stop criminals with some magical change in the legal system. You can keep them away from society longer so identified ones do thier victimization in prison against gaurds and other inmates, and not society, but the problem does not go away, and it costs a lot of the money.
When they get out they inevitably screw some women, make some children that will grow up to a single mother living in a poor area and have a high chance of turning out just like them. Then they go back to prison when the commit a new crime.
The only real solution is making criminal acts of violence very unattractive because the criminals are surrounded by people that can hurt them when they don't expect it while commiting such crimes.
You cannot stop crime contrary to that never ending goal governments feed to you for increased budgets and acceptance of lesser freedoms. You can simply allow people ways to deal with it so the impact is has is smaller.
Question: Is 1st degree sexual assault legalese for rape? I hope not, but like Scorp, I had a bad feeling I knew what was happening to some young girls for a few hours.
Yes it is. Those women went through some awful things for a long time. 911 didn't protect them. It would have been great if someone could have stopped them with a bullet. Unfortunately as is often the case, a household must depend on itself for defense.
.....................i sleep better at night since the security system went in.
That is just a personal alert, not a lifeline. In fact in CA they won't even respond to house alarms anymore because the majority of police time was being spent on false alarms when house alarms would go off. Now the alarm company calls by telephone and if they get no reply they just ignore it as there is nothing more that can be done without confirmation that a crime is in progress.
People have to be willing to stand up for themselves and others. That is all that protects us. Many people like to leave scary or unwanted tasks to other people. They would rather trade in rights, and freedom and liberty as long as someone can assure them they won't have to get their own hands dirty. Guess what? Empty promises, but the disappearing rights are real. The safeguards to freedom and liberty being taken for those empty promises are real.
Crime exists, has existed since prehistory, and predators will always be born, be created out of previously seemingly normal individuals, and proceed to victimize others. Being able to deal with it is the answer. You cannot just make it "go away".
