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Parking: You park on double yellow lines and a traffic wardens issue us ticket, and a fixed penalty fine that if you do not pay within a required time limit, will double. It will continue to accumulate until you pay. The circumstances upon which you needed to park on the yellow lines are not taken into consideration. You parked on double yellow lines, you know the rules, you have to pay the penalty.
Speeding: If you break the speed limit on the road, you receive 3 points on your license and again a fixed penalty. Same rules apply. The circumstances, whether that be driving a friend to a hospital in an emergency are the same. You broke the rules, you pay the fine.
If you continue to break the law, your points build up which eventually leads to you losing your license. You are hit financially, more points generally means an increase in car insurance.
So there you have it. Fixed penalties, do they work? Well; yeah!
Which leads us to…?
Burglary: When a burglar breaks into your house or your car, and steals your possessions.
Vandalism: People who graffiti walls, smashing bus shelters and telephone boxes. Public disorder and anti social behaviour causes misery to the lives of the people who live in the surrounding communities.
Joyriding: Someone who steals your car that may have cost you thousands of pounds, that of which you are working hard to pay for. Driven on the road without insurance and often dangerously. (What a god awful expression joyriding is when its causes so many people such despair)
Why not fixed jail terms?
Mitigating circumstances: What mitigating circumstances?
If you burglarise someone, surely you are fully conscious and aware of what you are doing. The law says that “you could” face jail if caught. I want the law to say that “you will” go to jail, and for a long time if caught.
By what scale do you think the reduction in crime would be if there where fixed penalties issued to people who are convicted of such crimes. If burglary was a 5 year jail sentence, hard labour? Joyriding and Vandalism 5 years, no parole
Are my thoughts to draconian?
As you can probably tell, I don’t know the inns and outs or the law. But, I do know right from wrong, and so do those who commit these crimes. In Countries where crimes of this nature are dealt with harshly, the problems are massively reduced. Personally I would prefer bringing back public flogging and have those who thinks its funny to steal your car and burglarise your house whipped in the market on a Saturday afternoon, and while they cry, there friends can be reminded of what will happen to them if they get caught.
Speeding: If you break the speed limit on the road, you receive 3 points on your license and again a fixed penalty. Same rules apply. The circumstances, whether that be driving a friend to a hospital in an emergency are the same. You broke the rules, you pay the fine.
If you continue to break the law, your points build up which eventually leads to you losing your license. You are hit financially, more points generally means an increase in car insurance.
So there you have it. Fixed penalties, do they work? Well; yeah!
Which leads us to…?
Burglary: When a burglar breaks into your house or your car, and steals your possessions.
Vandalism: People who graffiti walls, smashing bus shelters and telephone boxes. Public disorder and anti social behaviour causes misery to the lives of the people who live in the surrounding communities.
Joyriding: Someone who steals your car that may have cost you thousands of pounds, that of which you are working hard to pay for. Driven on the road without insurance and often dangerously. (What a god awful expression joyriding is when its causes so many people such despair)
Why not fixed jail terms?
Mitigating circumstances: What mitigating circumstances?
If you burglarise someone, surely you are fully conscious and aware of what you are doing. The law says that “you could” face jail if caught. I want the law to say that “you will” go to jail, and for a long time if caught.
By what scale do you think the reduction in crime would be if there where fixed penalties issued to people who are convicted of such crimes. If burglary was a 5 year jail sentence, hard labour? Joyriding and Vandalism 5 years, no parole
Are my thoughts to draconian?
As you can probably tell, I don’t know the inns and outs or the law. But, I do know right from wrong, and so do those who commit these crimes. In Countries where crimes of this nature are dealt with harshly, the problems are massively reduced. Personally I would prefer bringing back public flogging and have those who thinks its funny to steal your car and burglarise your house whipped in the market on a Saturday afternoon, and while they cry, there friends can be reminded of what will happen to them if they get caught.
