The Cure For crime

is punishment.

It's quite simple, make prison so unpleasant that no-one wants to re-offend. If they worked for their livings, doing community jobs in chain gangs, they'd soon learn that it isn't worth committing crime.

No, I'm not a die-hard reactionary, I just don't see why criminals should have a better life than OAPs. They get more spent on them, more ocmforts, no worries about bills to pay, so make their lives unpleasant.

If they don't reoffend, they can get jobs and support their families, thus cutting the benefits bill.

We all live better then.

As a case in point, I never go out after dark, because it's too dangerous, too many teenage gangs about, willing to mug people, vandalising property. That means that I'm essentially a prisoner in my own home for many hours during winter. Teach these young people to respect the law and other people by making sure that they know that if they are convicted of a crime, they'll have an unpleasant time of it in a Borstal or approved school.

They won't want a second helping of that, so why not do it? Make the whole country happy, cut youth crime, so they are less likely to offend as adults.

They are hardly poor little socially deprived youngsters, not when they can afford all the alcohol they swig. One group of morons set a local bus shelter on fire, using twelve packets of firelighters. Where did they get the money from for them?

And where are their mothers, grandmothrs, aunts, sisters going to shelter from the rain once the bus shelter is destroyed?

Short, sharp shocks might just help them to develop the capacity to think before they have a good time destroying public facilities.

Oh, and let's have an end to Police Services, make them Police Forces again..

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