On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:09:53 -0800 (PST), furnessvale
wrote:

On Dec 31, 3:26*pm, Bruce wrote:
MB wrote:
If more criminals were given longer sentences then there would be
not as
many out there committing offences.

If the police cannot or will not catch them in the first place, the
length of sentence is completely irrelevant.

Every month a villain spends inside is one less that the police need
spend on crimes he commits and therefore one more month devoted to
putting others in the same place.

As a policeman the ONLY thing that mattered was putting nominated
criminals away, thus they would be hounded for motoring offences to
get them disqualified and eventually jailed for disco driving. Only
politicians and top level officers worried overmuch about stats, we
knew who had to be off the streets.

I thought we employed judges to decide that ?