OneWingedBird
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Indeed, believing that you're possibly about to be wrongly caught I guess creates very similar anxiety and reactions to believing that you're possibly about to be legitimately caught.
This summer someone stole the rainbow flag from outside the police station. To my knowledge no doors have been kicked in...
Not even back doors?
maximus otter
That's Live Leak screwed then.https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/13/uk_counter_terror_act_royal_assent/
Is this paranoid nonsense even the un think it's goes against human rights.
Sounds like a class (war) action lawsuit to me.Police involvement in the blacklisting. A secret police document has revealed how the Metropolitan Police's Special Branch helped the illegal blacklisting of trade unionists - preventing them from getting jobs because of their political views. Part of the secret report underpinning that admission has now been disclosed, after initially being classified as so secret it was for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner's eyes only.
It's self evident that most traditional 'lie detectors' can easily be gamed. Obviously the ones that detect the brain using areas for dissembling are more efficient in suggesting the whole truth isn't being told.
The problem with that is that it assumes all people's brains are wired the same way. They aren't.
Sounds about right - we may know more on the subject by then!Do you want me to reply in 2022?
On the contrary, I believe it is doing the 1984 stuff instead of proper policing. And that sadly the current attitude among the police forces is far more interested in policing 'social change' than actually preventing violent crimes against people or propertyBritain is a long way from being a police state. In fact it need to toughen up and start instilling fear amongst the criminal fraternity.
INT21.
The laws are there, they are not being enforced.When criminals have no fear of consequence for their acts, they have no incentive to not commit the crime.
Crime pays; it is easy money.
If, right from the beginning, the people who seem to be quite happy to stick a knife into someone for the most trivial reasons knew that they would be executed if the victim died, or would spend many years in total isolation id the attack caused injury, they may think twice before acting.
We, as a nation, are far too lenient.
INT21.
Agreed. One has to ask why.
Could it be that the average criminal, so quick to abuse other people's rights and property, Is the first to squeal for his/her lawyer when they are caught ?
And the judiciary seem to be very much on the side of not offending the human rights of these scumbags; so they mostly get to walk free.
This subject does bring out the 'fascist bastard' in me. Admittedly it is never far from the surface.
INT21.
Agreed. One has to ask why.
Could it be that the average criminal, so quick to abuse other people's rights and property, Is the first to squeal for his/her lawyer when they are caught ?
And the judiciary seem to be very much on the side of not offending the human rights of these scumbags; so they mostly get to walk free.
This subject does bring out the 'fascist bastard' in me. Admittedly it is never far from the surface.
INT21.
Cost.
If there were even a modest increase in the number of suspects and confirmed criminals to be processed through the courts, the courts would cease to function and prisoners would be on remand or out on bail for literally years.
And if there were even a modest increase in the number of those found guilty and given custodial sentences, the prison system would be unable to accommodate the increased population--even if we went back to the dangerously overcrowded institutions of yesteryear.
Ramonmercardo,
I would disagree with much of that.
The way to fix the drug problem is not to give in to by by decriminalising drugs, it is to make it so unattractive that no one will dare to be found in possession of anything illegal.
But our system is gutless.
Everyone can live in a fair society. But you have to weed out the people who wish to take advantage of this fairness.
And this will upset those who make money from illegal actions.
But so be it.
INT21.
So you imprison everyone who uses drugs?
You're going to have to build a lot of prisons. A lot of extra tax to be paid.
Legalise and control drugs instead.
As I said you're no fascist but you do come across as a cranky old git at times!
Additional,
And how many of these people who walk free having been found 'not guilty' are actually playing the law and really are completely guilty. But it is in some one's interest to let them go ?
A fair trial ? I completely agree. But if you are guilty you should be made to wish you had never commited the crime. And to be sure, in your own mind, you will never do it again.
C'mon, Ramon.
Life's sweet in the Philippines of late.
But who decides that someone is really actually guilty after being found not guilty? The media? You?