Crime does pay?

Question

With recent tragic events, there used to be a saying "crime does not pay" now it seems it is the only thing that does. What are your views on how to get us back to a relatively lawful society?

Answer 1

A harsher penal system where the inmates are treated rough!
A more strict Legal system that is not afraid to hand down longer sentences to those convicted of more serious crimes.
A shorter appeal process, so that valuable tax dollars are not wasted on inmate conviction appeals, If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
More respect for the policemen patrolling our neighborhoods
More money spent on getting the police the equipment they need in order to do their jobs better.


Thank you,

Answer 2

It's ethics, personal ethics. Something the US perhaps has found archaic.

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Lincoln [1/27/1838]

I had a young female doctor [repeat, doctor] at the VA hospital tell me that they didn't use MRI for diagnostics. Is that the US summarized in one sentence? A German Sprichwort:; So the dishwasher, are the dishes.

Take a look at Hurricane Pam and Katrina; one had the answer for the other; a profoundly illuminating exercise. As Lincoln at the age of 28 so profoundly said, destruction comes from within. And, that destruction is made by ignorant and personal choice influenced by the social flavor of the period.

It is not by accident that Ford, GM, and Chrysler lost $19.2 billion-
although Ford and GM were in separate years, the loss was still in a single year.

There is an old Japanese saying, "you win by losing." It works when applied with intelligence and understanding among Intelligents.

Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "The education of a child begins a hundred years before its birth." The cultivated mind does not happen by Chance.

Answer 3

You said it yourself! '...tragic events...' So No... Crime does not pay because of all the pain it causes!

The majority of people are lawful, it's only when a one off event happens and the media jump all over it, do people think that society is being flushed away!

I'll admit that these one off events are becoming more frequent but then the media world is becoming more efficent at splashing it across the world in an instant!

Answer 4

Its too far gone now - there is no way back -for it to get better society would have to be turned into a sort of Moscow state
" V " type of society...Everday I see more & more people getting away with everything to petty shoplifting - to- dangerous weirdos being given soft punishments - the law is an azz - it is going to make criminals of law abiding citizens - who want to take the law into their own hands.. I am fed up with seeing perverts and child killers being handed down community service sentences... Drug dealers swanning around - with that - you cant catch me - look on their faces..
As the Sun newspaper say's this morning - Anarchy in the UK.

Answer 5

The problem is is that crime does pay - until you get caught, we have a weak prison system so you get out quick if you were sentenced at all - then you go back to crime - it pays - you get caught eventually - and repeat

My solution - tougher sentences - build more prisons

Answer 6

Crime pays very badly, just ask John McVicar.

On the other hand, I work in criminal defence, and it pays very well, as does working for the CPS, the Police,, alarm and insurance companies, prison officer etc. So, in some respects crime pays very well. It is just the offender himself who is poorly paid

Answer 7

I agree ive known people who have people they know commit crimes and often get away with it and live fairly well on the crime often getting flash cars or houses when they dont even work while honest hard working people struggle.

we need to change they way they are punished so people dont want to commit crimes through fear of getting caught and it doesnt help sending them to the holiday homes they call prison with there TV's and pool tables etc.

Answer 8

it might seem from the state of affairs you have noted that certainly crime right here in Britain does pay. i think of that on a similar time as structures fail us, politicians and cops are generally caught brushing off the regulation and rampant media sensationalism making us sense that we live in against the regulation infested society on the component of catastrophe, then human beings will probable sense extra liable to devote crime, distinctly that of the white collar style.

Answer 9

Crime really does not pay only it gets you a roof over your head 3 meals aday an jail time not a veary good pay check

Answer 10

With all the do-gooders around these days, we don't stand a chance. There is no respect for law and order, or anything else for that matter.