Duttons crime crackdown on eve of election

[mellie]

https://www.9news.com.au/national/feder ... 11b6c7dbb3

Sounds good, however should this have come sooner than later?

[mellie]

We need to take stock of Australia's worsening crime wave, a prolonged and protracted wave that's been worsening since Covid.

We don't need bandaid policy or pseudo- legislation, pre- election
promises.... we need to build more prisons , youth detention centres and get very mentally unstable people out of group-homes and into psychiatric care facilities where they can be properly managed, medicated and kept away from society for theirs and others well-being.
Residential care homes are failing our youth, they'd be better off in government-run boarding schools, facilities.

Life should mean life, not 24 years or less.

[Bobby]

Bring back 19th century British justice.

That will fix it.

[mellie]

Bring back 19th century British justice.

That will fix it.

Definitely need more prisons and life should mean life.

[Bobby]

Bring back 19th century British justice.

That will fix it.

Definitely need more prisons and life should mean life.

And the rope for the most serious matters.

[mellie]

If it's especially bad, absolutely. I'm an advocate for capital punishment, where theres no doubt.

[tllwd]

Would you trust a government or politicized judge with a human life?
Besides at it's best, a criminal justice system is not noted for its infallibility.

[Bobby]

Would you trust a government or politicized judge with a human life?
Besides at it's best, a criminal justice system is not noted for its infallibility.

But the normal bar of beyond reasonable doubt would have to be changed to -

absolutely no doubt whatsoever.

[Black Orchid]

I'm against capital punishment. There's always room for error. Better 100 locked up for life than one person killed who is later found to be innocent.

[Bobby]

I'm against capital punishment. There's always room for error. Better 100 locked up for life than one person killed who is later found to be innocent.

I can understand that - remember Lindy Chamberlain?

The forensic evidence mixed up foetal blood and an anti-rust chemical from the car.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/feb ... .australia


Joy Kuhl identified foetal blood in a car belonging to Lindy Chamberlain - the crucial evidence that led to her conviction for killing her baby daughter, Azaria, near Ayres Rock, in 1980. Six years later, she admitted to a royal commission she was mistaken and the "blood" was an anti-rust chemical. Ms Chamberlain, who claimed a dingo had stolen her baby, was cleared.