What on earth?

reblogged from i-thorts' i-Politics

What is
This World
 coming
to?

When did it become okay to loot and steal, and riot and cause disorder on British streets?

Last year’s riots cost taxpayers, insurance companies, businesses, and London in general, a fortune in losses. Have the culprits been adequately punished?

It wouldn’t seem so! As, of the 1,292 criminal sentences handed out, one in five of these offenders have been released early… (according to a Mail Online article). Tagged and let out of prison. They are on Home Detention Curfew, or HDC as it is often termed. (HDC is only available for ‘low risk’ offenders who have served at least three months of their sentence -but less than four years- and ‘deemed appropriate’.)

If it seems a stretch to class looters and rioters as ‘low risk’, then let me put it another way: Of those released, there are 162 burglars, 44 thieves, 26 violent offenders, and 2 robbers! These individuals are classed by the system as low risk -offenders who are ‘free of reoffening’ while out on HDC. The fact that there offence was actually ‘civil disorder’ (rioting) should have made it obvious to all that they have little or no comprehension of adhering the rules.

I did an article, which touched on this (British Shame to Olympic Gold) and, which stated that there were rumours of riots to come after the end of the Games in London. 

If I have heard these rumours, you would have to assume so have the authorities. If this is the case, why have these rioters been let out so soon? Why are we putting potential ring-leaders back on the street to repeat offend this year? Surely it would seem more sensible to keep these individuals out of society until they have severed their sentences?

However, today it all seems to revolve around economics. The cost is too high to keep these individuals in detention. We have to pay for the Olympic Games spectacular. And then there’s the cost of security and policing. Not to mention how much it will cost for Cameron’s feed the hungry initiative. (Forget the poor children of Britain, let’s feed the hungry of other nations!)

Feeding children in your own country doesn’t earn you a Nobel Prize, after all!


Is this justice? Or is this bureaucratic madness?

I lean towards madness. But what is your view?


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