Bag's Rants

The pendulum of Justice.

Who nowadays feel like there is Justice in the UK?

The Police catch them even with all the rules and PC bull they have to follow.
The CPS lets them off on technicalities or for some arbitrary political reason. The only ones who seem to get prosecuted are those with own use drugs or those that fill their recycling bins wrong.
If real criminals go to court and are found guilty they are given a really pitiful sentence which does not provide justice. This seems to be down to two things. Sentencing guidelines from some politically goody two shoes and a old out of touch farts feelings on the issues. After all the criminals are only that way because of society. What a load of crap.

Of course like everything in government peoples feelings are eventually heard and with a lot of creaking and screeching the pendulum of justice swings and of course yet again ends up in somewhere stupid. Already we have these draconian anti terrorist laws and our criminal justice system and it looks like we are getting pushed again for summary justice. This is the police feeling they should do something to stop the people they see slipping through their fingers but the problem is not actually at their end. They do have issues with bureaucracy etc. but these powers will do more harm than good. Ordinary people will not see justice carried out but persecution.

Why do we need a pendulum anyway? Justice isn't about black and white as there is grey and it never seems to stop in the right place. It's not just us. I don't see Justice being applied anywhere we look nowadays. Look at this guy from the US. That can't be Justice. Although to be honest I think the justice system in the West is about the best in the world. It could do with a little tweaking though.

In our attempts to tweak, using sledgehammers, we don't seem to be able to organise anything in the UK lately. Sledgehammers not being tweaking tools. Everything that is introduced is either rubbish before it starts and clearly so or it has side effects that cause issues further down the line which a bit of though would have predicted. Nothing seems to be thought out and it is all knee jerk responses based on something that has happened and other, simpler, changes could fix it but we have to go the whole hog and smash it to pieces. We never learn. I don't know how we survived without all these changes in the past. For hundreds of years we had a system that worked reasonably well. In the past decade we have changed so much that people are running wild. Crime is out of control and people are defenceless.

Now, when I rule the planet there will still be miscarriages of justice but they, hopefully, will be identified and corrected. The areas that need to change are mainly in the sentencing areas. Crimes like cannabis or other no victim crimes will not result in prison but instead with fines. Burglary, assault etc. will have their sentences increased and also on a sliding scale where the number of offences makes a difference. I've ranted about it here.

Once people see that crime has a punishment there will be less crime. Alternatively, they will be locked away so there will be less crime that way. Win win.

The police don't need any more powers. It's the stages after that that provides the injustice.

posted by Bag @ 9:57 am