Saturday, April 18, 2009

What measures u think the government should take to minimise the growing crime rate?

Do u think it is the lean rules of most of the governments which is not stopping the criminals from their antisocial activities. Do u think the government should adopt Stringent punishments like the one followed in most of the Arab countres.


I think governments should lead by example.

Get rid of the current crime lord in the White House because his followers usually follow his lead. It's like you're a father in a house with young impressionable children and when you turn into a criminal then you can expect your children to follow suit. Also many companies can stop sending jobs out of the country so other criminals who may not have become that way except they are following the age old system of self preservation..

Law Enforcement is a growth industry. Let's suppose the crime statistics came out saying crime is up by 5%. So the government says "in order to eliminate crime we need more laws and enforcers". If you were a business which wanted to expand you would increase your product line and hire more salesmen.

Next year your statistics come out and you find sales are up by 5%.

So the government says "5% increase in crime so we need more laws and more enforcers". So they build more prisons, increase their product line of laws and hire more enforcers.

Next year "Sales are up by 5%, we need bigger prisons, more laws, more enforcers".

The jail business is just like the hospital or apartment business. If you want to make money you've got to keep the beds full.

So to answer your question: no.

Except for Federal crimes, dealing with criminal activity is the job of state and local governments and police. That's why some states carry the death penalty and some don't. Some have stricter laws and enforce them, some don't. Unfortunately, some judges are now rewriting laws to suit themselves instead of doing their jobs.

Personally, I think we need more people in charge of our penal institutions like Sherriff, Joe Arpaio, from Maricopa County, Arizona.

Joe has created the "tent city jail" I got this info off of the internet, but also read it in the newspaper some time back and have seen him talked about on tv.

"With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees) the associated Press reports:

About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent emcampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wed. hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunks or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

The tough-guy sherriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wed. that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your dam*ed mouths!"

jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them...

stopped smoking and *****magazines---took away their weights---cut off all but "G" movies.

Started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects, then started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't be sued for discrimination.

took away cable tv until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable tv for jails, so he hooked up the cable tv again allowing only the Disney channel and weather channel. (when asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.)

cut off coffee--zero nutritional value

When inmates complained--told them it wasn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back.

This is a good example of how a jail/prison should be run.

Way to go, Joe! You ROCK!!

As the previous post points out, your data findings are incorrect. Since 1993, Serious Violent Crime, Burglaries, and Firearm-related crimes have all continued their downward trend. However, there have been INCREASES...such as crime reporting rates and drug-related arrests. The origin of your question lies within a media that naturally focuses on bad news.

Fix the economy and the unemployment rate. More money = less desperation. It's too late now for us to start lopping off hands that steal bread. The people would never go for it. I agree with Jimi.

How about closing the wide open southern border for one- the font of virtually all of the gang and drug activity in the US today.

In the US of A, the most recent crime statistics released indicate a wholesale decrease in serious crime.

From where are you writing?

You are correct. The government should deal strictly with them. There the crime rate is less.

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