[KMA]Avenger wrote:If you REALLY want to fight crime (low level crime, meaning everyday criminality, not crimes of treason and fraud as committed by politicians and bankers) then you have to start with education and the reinstatement of morality within the education system. you also have to get Govt out of the education system. you also have to allow local authorities to deal with crimes within the community. Govt trying to fight crime on a national basis DOES NOT WORK as evidenced by the shear amount of criminality.
Drugs have to be decriminalised and Govt needs to also remove itself from the economy. the red tape agencies and bureaucratic taxed based system hell-bent on destroying small business also needs to *be*shut down and allow true free enterprise to run the economy which will allow the creation of high paying jobs as in the past which will allow the young to once again find jobs that pay them what they are worth which in turns allows the young to save and buy properties with enough money to live an upper middle class life style.
What Jim fails to realise is you can't just create a system of rules and then enforce those rules with stiff punishment all in the name of tackling criminality without looking at why there are so many crimes being committed, such as burglary, thievery drug taking and so on. what are the causes of crimes and then move towards making things better so it doesn't pay to be a criminal because a straight life pays equally or more. that's how you fight crime!
If you want to tackle high profile crimes such as crooked politicians, corrupt police forces, bankers and so on...then go after the politicians and the Govt. simple as that!
Morality is rejected by political correctness, even though political correctness is created its own form of morality to twist even more the minds at school to make good future socialists supporters.
Your comment regarding fighting nationally crime leads me to believe that you probably support the silly idea of removing FBI in the USA? Leading back to a outlaws-heaven as it was pre-FBI era, problem being now we have all those crime networks whom would just follow the line of the likes of Barrow Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and whatever other big 1930s name caused havoc on the USA from State to State.
I don't see how decriminalizing drugs would solve anything. As I said already, what we have with casino and cabarets, you will have with legal drug stores. It would work as a nice cover up for the networks and they would find other background illegal stuff to do to increase their profits.
Ah, well regarding the taxing hell towards small companies, you know I agree with you there, but people in France -at least- voted in a short majority advance to be taxed more (both individually as citizens and towards companies). Well, people love to be taxed to death on all fronts and believe futile liberal laws are a good mix to go to Heaven /sarcasm.
As for the causes of said crime, I don't fall for the "blame it on society" stuff. I say it's a mix of a sub-culture ideology which glorify guns and crime (rap music for example), neighbor relatives, parents not doing their role nor school doing its. It's NOT the society. At least not in France, and I'm sure in the UK they did the exact same. Waste (spend if you prefer) tons of money restoring working-class hoods and modernize them. BUT despite all this cash spent (and not spent on struggling poor rural areas where crime rate is strangely much lower, despite no attention and even lower incomes, which validates my reasoning sub-culture & relatives are to blame) it doesn't evolve. Worse, they force market owners and other small businesses to exile to safer areas. In short, they cause the mess they live in! So let me be quite skeptical about all this "stop abandon the hoods and focus on their education/give them hobbies".