Is your community a safer place to live in 2006, than it was in previous years?

Question

WASHINGTON - A record 7 million people — or one in every 32 American adults — were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday.

More than 4.1 million people were on probation and 784,208 were on parole at the end of 2005. Prison releases are increasing, but admissions are increasing more.

Men still far outnumber women in prisons and jails, but the female population is growing faster. Over the past year, the female population in state or federal prison increased 2.6 percent while the number of male inmates rose 1.9 percent. By year's end, 7 percent of all inmates were women. The gender figures do not include inmates in local jails.




Are law enforcement personnel, procedures and technologies improving our domestic security as a nation and within your community?

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the criminal justice system. 1 = Bad and 10 = Excellent..

Answer 1

4 or 5 - just adequate. Some technologies are helping like the GPS thing required for pedophiles. But to my way of thinking (sorry New York does not have the death penalty) a repeat offender should have a "cumulative" sentence, so that by the second homicide or third armed robbery, eigth burglary, 12th purse snatching, etc. the law would require him/her to be executed - that way, if you stop at the limit you live, if not, you die - that would put a real incentive into not repeating that behavior, unlike leniency which acts as no deterrent, and draconian measures that execute on the first offence, which would guarantee that any witness would be killed. And murder having no statute of limitations, a person having done it once could not do it again before the first charge, otherwise maybe they'd be executed for the second offense - in other words, they'd have to keep their nose clean in case they ever got charged.

Another of my favorite ideas is Heinlein's "Outland" where criminals are all put in a place in the Western U.S. behind a very high impentrable wall to live out their lives among themselves, dog-eat-dog. I'd put only the violent ones there, with the forgers and burglars being sentenced to a life of community service at minimum wage and living in barracks - the penalty for AWOL - "Outland"!

But one issue that needs to be addressed is drugs. I know how destructive they can be - my father, my grandmother, a nephew and myself were or are all alcoholics. It is a disease. It does not have to be a crime. The first reason drub usage becomes a crime is that to get the supply one must rob, kill, etc. Also the types who distribute it must be hard-types to enforce their control of the market. Just legalize and then make addicts sign up like in Britain.

The second reason it is a crime is that beginning with the New Deal the Government can enter into your private life and tell you how you can become intoxicated with safe agents (I do not mean crack). I cannot drink, but I guarantee you in my hippie days other stuff was used - even though I use nothing today. I can attest as to which substance was the better for me - so how can society tell me which one is morrally better, and then how can they tell me that their moral preference gets enforced in the face of the destruction to my health when I used "their" drug of choice?

As for the increase in women being arrested, to find the cause all you have to do is just look at two factors - gang membership and women in the workforce. In my day women were to be protected from life's hard edges. Nowadays I suspect there are plenty of "men"-type women (and I do not mean gay) - it is a behavior they've had to learn to survive in today's world, so how can we blame them for acting more aggressively now than in former days?

Answer 2

definite and No. interior the day time it is wonderful yet night i in my view do no longer understand because of the fact i do no longer project out. I stay to tell the story a hectic considerable street and there's a pub only up the line. At night the individuals going domicile from there are very noisy and have no appreciate for the certainty that many individuals would be attempting to sleep. They shout and swear and whistle etc. maximum of them would have had a sprint too plenty to drink and would desire to be completely valuable human beings in the time of the day yet I continually experience satisfied that i'm indoors whilst such persons are around. i do no longer think of that anybody may well be sure that they are going to be risk-free outdoors after darkish at present. I in no way go away my outer doors unlocked regardless of the time of day and that i do no longer open my door to all of us as quickly because it is darkish until i'm watching for them. They continually 'telephone to assert what time they're going to be right here so i understand and that i even have requested them to shout who they are whilst they arrive. that's a shame that issues have replaced plenty because of the fact our early existence yet we would desire to deal with issues the way they at the instant are and not continuously be wishing they have been like they was once. we will in no way get returned to issues being like the previous days.

Answer 3

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