Do you think that (more) POLICE is the right solution for the problems of criminality we experience nowadays?

Question

I mean: robbery, assault, drugs, prostitution, rape, misbehaviour, white collar crimes...

If you believe that the solution would be a composed one, please state what would they be, even if you think it would be a composition of 4, 5, or more.

Acoording to US statistics more than 90% of the in-mates are illiterate or almost.

Citizens Commission on the Human Rights
www.cchr.org

It has been demonstrated that the more the criminality, the more governments increase the number of effectives and this increases criminality, that makes the gov to recruit more officers... The stats regard more than 50 years.
A similar phenomenum happens in schools and psychologists.

Have you ever heard about CRIMINON? and NARCONON? and The Way To Happiness? and Applied Scolastics?

Together they are changing the world of crime. Get the stats on them.

I always heard my mozher saying that 'violence atracts violence' maybe it is not very illustrative here, but I mean 'force, atracts force' so police atracts crime.

When one has a problem and one applies the Right Solution, the problem desappears, right?

With more Police, crime has been increasing... This is my question: Do you think more POLICE is THE solution?

The Problem here is not if we feel calm... I am trying to get a concense here about the right solution for crime.

I want SOLUTIONS. Coz the right one could impact the all world and change the scenarium.

There is something else:
In whatever you put your attention it grows. You have a business; you put your attention on it, it grows. Another example: you are studying, you put your attention on the books, your knowledge increases. England had no problems with terrorism, like it is nowadays; Mr Blair decided to join Mr Bush... What do you have? Repression is attention in the wrong side of the question coz it makes the thing you don't want to grow. Education is to put the attention on the right. If we have people that can understand by learning that there are alternatives to crime, we would need less police, we would be and feel safer.
I wonder how come this is not obvius to everybody. I really wonder....!

There is something else:
In whatever you put your attention it grows. You have a business; you put your attention on it, it grows. Another example: you are studying, you put your attention on the books, your knowledge increases. England had no problems with terrorism, like it is nowadays; Mr Blair decided to join Mr Bush... What do you have? Repression is attention in the wrong side of the question coz it makes the thing you don't want to grow. Education is to put the attention on the right. If we have people that can understand by learning that there are alternatives to crime, we would need less police, we would be and feel safer.
I wonder how come this is not obvius to everybody. I really wonder....!

POLICE to catch criminals... huh.... this is not solving the problem... this is TRYING to stop crime. Police cannot prevent a first crime. So, what could? This would be The Solution.

Answer 1

THE more police on the beat the better.
It's a start to solving the problem

Answer 2

We have enough Police officers, problem is, too many are chiefs and too much paperwork for the indians.

Also, if you commit a crime, why would you be deterred if you get out in half the time and have more rights than the victim.

You need to sort both to solve crime. Also, if you put Police Officers on the same type of pension as everyone else, that would free up quite a bit of money.

Stricter punishment. If you steal, you lose a hand. How about public flogging and bring the stocks back. Also, a life for a life. We just seem to piss in the wind.

Answer 3

More police???
You mean we have a police force in this country??.
How about we just impose Martial law and No trials for Drug Pushers, thieves, muggers and murderers.
In Oldham where I live the only time you see a cop is when they`re doing they`re shopping in ASDA or TESCO, I haven`t seen a cop on the streets in years.
Maybe if the politicians came into the real world and saw what is happening they might just close they`re mouths and do something right for once.
Gordon Brown would be better spending the £30+ Billion pounds he gives away to other countries to put more police on the streets and I mean on the streets instead of riding around all day in cars.
BRING BACK THE OLD TIME BEAT COPS

Answer 4

Wow, that one statistic about 90 % of the prison population are illiterate could explain that no one is reading signs (no trespassing, do not enter, speed limit.) because they don't or can't read what not to do. We take literacy for granted just like alot of other things. Maybe if we made it manditory that inmates read and write at atleast a high school level they will indeed have a better chance of staying out . Tell them sorry, you may not be released until you pass the GED test . Otherwise all they have learned in prison is how not to get caught next time .
More police would be nice , but not during the day, at night is when the bad guys are running amuck .

Answer 5

No.

Parents not raising spoiled brats who think they are above the rules is the first solution.

Easing up restrictions of businesses so that a common person can create their own job if they can't find one is another (i.e. California told a woman trying to get off welfare by opening a business where she only braided hair that she needed to go to cosmotology school and learn everything about hair BUT braiding it....) Most crime is commensurate with poverty.

Easing up on the "war on drugs" is a third way. Since pot smokers don't attack anything other than the fridge when they're stoned, putting someone in jail for 5 years for having a roach clip in their house seems a bit excessive.

Answer 6

We probably need police but, if so, we need them employed as policemen on the streets and not pushing paper around all day. What police we have must have their job simplified. It is crazy that one arrest takes up god knows how long in paper work. This system is totally perverse and needs to be reformed. However, there is no point in reforming the police unless the courts are purged of their pro criminal attitude. We need zero tolerance in the courts as well as by the police. Criminal justice has acquired a new meaning - justice for the criminals and sod the rest of us.

Answer 7

I think that it depends on what the situation is. There is a theory of sociology/criminology loosely referred to as the "Broken Window Principle", whereby, a community's crime rate is directly tied to the appearance of it's residential, commercial and industrial areas. Hence, the term broken window. The theory says that people are more inclined to respect their own community if they have a stake in it and it is presentable. Afterall, most crimes are committed within a perpetrator's community, right? Policing is not so much emphasized in that school as a means of cutting crime but as reacting to it. Another theory that deals with policing is that of having more officers in urban areas walking the streets. It's called beat policing. Officers walk a beat--set of streets--and hopefully connect with residents, who in turn will trust them more and be more forthright about crime. There is some argument as to whether this school requires more officers. I don't think that a correlation to more officers and increased criminality has been demonstrated. Interesting, though.

Answer 8

The Police can not solve all of societies ills on their own it's a joint effort between the general public, Government and the Police. Unfortunately there is a slow break down of society in the UK and I think it will be very difficult to turn it around. You need people with real imagination to come up with new ideas, but we don't have that kind of people in Government. Ploughing people with benefits is not the answer

Answer 9

KallmeMik has the right idea about the broken window syndrome. Unfortunately, in the UK this problem has persisted for two or more generations, so one gets people who think it is the norm.

Clacton, in Essex, has had a large influx of people made redundant from Fords in Dagenham, East London, who have moved into genteel areas in Clacton, using their substantial redundancy money to but the properties. The first thing they do is to pave over the front garden and fill it up with old cars in various stages of disrepair, and then work on them, with radios blaring out music.As a consequence, the rest of the 'respectable' community move out, property prices fall, and the whole area becomes degenerate. This is today's broken window syndrome.

Before policing can be effective, Government must lay down what it considers to be acceptable standards of behaviour for the entire community, not just for those who can afford to move into the thralldom of gated communities. Music in the streets, bass boxes that can be heard a mile away, parties in houses going on after midnight in private houses must either be deemed as acceptable or not, not by some fudged legislation that enables you to eventually take transgressors to court six months after the event, but by legislation that enables the police to take immediate action, because the laws are clear.

We need to decide whether we wish to have a tranquil society, or one that is given over to chavdom and disorder - in the latter case I suggest that the entire Royal Family abdicates so that Jade Goody can take the Throne.

If we want a tranquil society, then with clear laws and more police, police who are empowered to take action and not tied up with red tape, we can deal with crime from corporate fiddling (white collar crime) right down to nuisance, criminal damage and petty theft. Government must take the responsibility to make that decision on behalf of its electorate. Currently, no English political party manifests the guts to tackle this problem.

Answer 10

Yes-more police and less criminals.
Society must take responsibility,less criminals means more responsible parents,responsible neighbours,community responsibility,educational discipline and a responsible Government that displays a role model image that young people identify with and aspire to, not despise.
The police cannot have a meaningfull effect on crime by sweeping up after the event,we must all participate if we want to reduce crime and dishonesty.