Jim Roszko and the law
Today there is much on the radio and in the papers about Jim Roszko and whether the system failed society by letting this madman run loose. There are a lot of apologists for "The System" that say that the police are understaffed and that the law doesn't allow us to just lock up dangerous people.
Well that may be true, and I wish that governments would spend more money on real law and order efforts than wasting it on "supposed" programs like the Gun Registry.
My first proposal:
Canada should implement a California-style THREE STRIKES law. On your third criminal conviction you are declared a menace to society and imprisoned for life with no chance of parole. If such a law had been in place in the last 15 years, Jim Roszko wouldn't have been free to shoot four RCMP constables.
Second:
We also need to spend more on constructing prisons. Real prisons, not Club Fed style prisons. Prisons with 8×10 cells without televisions, computers or anything else. Prisons for convicts who do not need rehabilitation because they are NEVER getting out.
Well that may be true, and I wish that governments would spend more money on real law and order efforts than wasting it on "supposed" programs like the Gun Registry.
My first proposal:
Canada should implement a California-style THREE STRIKES law. On your third criminal conviction you are declared a menace to society and imprisoned for life with no chance of parole. If such a law had been in place in the last 15 years, Jim Roszko wouldn't have been free to shoot four RCMP constables.
Second:
We also need to spend more on constructing prisons. Real prisons, not Club Fed style prisons. Prisons with 8×10 cells without televisions, computers or anything else. Prisons for convicts who do not need rehabilitation because they are NEVER getting out.
posted by Technical Bard | 11:27
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