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Offline CG6468

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London's "Crackdown"
« on: August 12, 2011, 09:05:02 AM »
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Tough sentences? Forget it. These teen yobs will be treated as if THEY'RE the victims

By Winston Smith

Last updated at 1:36 PM on 12th August 2011

David Cameron may have sounded tough this week, promising night curfews, tougher sentencing and new police powers in response to the outbreak of almost untrammelled anarchy in several of our cities.

Police leave has been cancelled and a crackdown on gangs announced. But the Prime Minister is sorely mistaken if he really thinks the rioters will be punished and made to pay for what they've done.

Why? Because the criminal justice system in this country is broken. From my experience as a youth offender worker, little, if anything, will happen to the young people who participated in the riots around the country this week. And what's worse — they know it.

One 15-year-old looter quoted in yesterday's Mail summed up the defiance: 'They can't touch me, I'm still a kid . . . what is the worst they can do? Give me a caution or a curfew I won't obey.'

Sadly, he's absolutely right. While magistrates yesterday did seem to be cracking down on adult offenders, some of whom will get custodial sentences, almost everyone under 18 will end up with the ultra-soft, kid-gloves treatment I've seen being handed out on a daily basis.

Snot-nosed little punks...

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Re: London's "Crackdown"
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2011, 09:11:29 AM »
Winston Smith works for the Daily Mail now?  Interesting.
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Re: London's "Crackdown"
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2011, 09:14:02 AM »
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"...While magistrates yesterday did seem to be cracking down on adult offenders, some of whom will get custodial sentences..."

It's not just the juvenile part of that system that's broken.
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Re: London's "Crackdown"
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2011, 09:14:45 AM »
The chavs and rags all need a dose of .303 British.
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Re: London's "Crackdown"
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2011, 09:17:51 AM »
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'They can't touch me, I'm still a kid . . . what is the worst they can do? Give me a caution or a curfew I won't obey.'


Since beating the snot out of you with a hickory stick would be barbaric why don't we just taser you for half an hour? Let us know when your tongue stud starts to get hot.
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