Should Criminals Feel "terror" At The Thought Of Breaking The Law?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49213743
Finally a home sec who tough on the criminal low lives that blight all of us.

[-SharonA-]

Must say, I laughed when I read what Priti said. We can all dream!

[New Judge]

I must say I'm not actually too fussed whether criminals are "terrorised" or not. All I want is for them to be treated robustly but justly. I don't want the police to be frightened of taking robust action against those who cannot behave themselves lest, three months later, some ambulance chasing lawyer says they scared his client witless and is now claiming for PTSD. I also want "career" criminals taken out of circulation for a long time and for petty nuisances who make people's lives a misery to be banged up for a suitable period to give others a rest from their activities. If they are terrorised at the thought of that, all the better.

[ichkeria]

I’d like to think it was Ian Hislop who was influential in making Patel rethink her views on capital punishment when he ran rings round her on the subject on Newsnight a few years ago.

[Khandro]

If you don't want to read the whole thing you can go straight to 'Conclusion'
What do you say NJ?

[Khandro]

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/the-next-step-ending-excessive-punishment-for-violent-crimes/

[THELOONYCORBYN]

@ Gromit

"Just the standard soundbite from a new Home Secretary."

Have you any suggestions then as to what would be more preferable ?

[vetuste_ennemi]

I've got a Patel joke (true story).

The IT department I was working in had a help desk to support our in-house systems and we would each take turns to man/woman it for a week. One week when I was doing it I had a call from someone I hadn't spoken to before.

"Who am I speaking to, please?"

"I'm Geeta Patel.".

"How do you spell that, Geeta?".

"G-E-E-T-A. And Patel as in corner shop."

[retrocop]

Not sure the Home Secretary was too wise in using the word "Terror" in the bid to return to law and order to the streets. I immediately think of the 'midnight knock' and a one way flight over the sea in Argentina. That way you become a member of the Desaparecidos (Vanishing Gallery) or perhaps Rodrigo Duterte's crack down on narcotics,as President of the Philipines.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37162323

That is real terror tactics. And to think I have heard people in the UK saying we are becoming a police state! Pah. Not even close.

[Baldric]

'Well she would say that wouldn't she?'

Let's wait and see.

[Gromit]

Of course the 20,000 new recruits will not be on the streets immediately, and will be phased in over the next 3 and a half years. And they have got rid of the long serving experienced officers, so this intake will be raw (ie, carp).

I’m not sure The Boris (dead cat) bounce will last another 3 and a half years, when his majority is just 1.

[Khandro]

Longer & longer sentences are not the answer, more emphasis on rehabilitation is required, e.g. programmes where the perpetrators have had to confront their victims have been successful, not an answer in itself, but it make young criminals see their acts can have devastating consequences.

[CrapAtCryptics]

People who choose the criminal lifestyle accept the occasional trip to jail as part of that choice. For many of them its better than their life ourtside.

[fender62]

achilles heel = human rights act

[andy-hughes]

It's a great soundbite, but like almost all soundbites, if you analyse what it means, it falls to bits in front of you.