How Should Violent Street Criminals be Handled?
Posted 03-28-2018 at 01:02 PM by jbgusa
There's been no arrests, but this situation is Exhibit "A" for the need for rough arrests, see 'Are you going to cry to ya' mommy?': Thug taunts 5-year-old after subway attack. When he's arrested he'll probably plead guilty to disorderly conduct or public urination. In other words, not much happens to the criminal.
I have previously suggested Maybe Arrests of Low-Level Criminals Need to Get a Bit Rough and Tumble. The Courts and prison system really don't have the resources to deal with this kind of very violent crime. Gun control won't solve the problem; these people are the weapon. Given that we are not going to imprison this person for the rest of his life or execute him, maybe the best punishment is on the spot.
I have previously suggested Maybe Arrests of Low-Level Criminals Need to Get a Bit Rough and Tumble. The Courts and prison system really don't have the resources to deal with this kind of very violent crime. Gun control won't solve the problem; these people are the weapon. Given that we are not going to imprison this person for the rest of his life or execute him, maybe the best punishment is on the spot.
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An eye for an eye? Wasn't that meant as a limitation?
Violent Street Criminals? We can't charge & prosecute them as normal? & the whole point of trial & incarceration (if found guilty) was to try to rehabilitate the offender. Perhaps if we took up that emphasis again, & quit trying to make money (private prisons as investments, factories whose entire work force are incarcerated, & paid miserable sums) off the inmates - we might be able to come up with treatment that leads to better outcomes for the prisoners & for the society @ large - when the prisoner is released.
@ some point, we might even be able to inculcate personality changes (implant ethics, as it were - although that in itself would probably count as violence - of a sort - I think). Would that be justifiable? Probably not ethically - but as self-defense? We'll have to see just how desperate we - as a society - get, before we can definitively answer that question.Posted 12-01-2019 at 10:07 AM by southwest88
