The law on "have-a-go heroes" is to be urgently reviewed to give honest members of the public more confidence to step in, Justice Secretary Jack Straw will announce today.
He will tell the Labour Party conference that the current law is not working as well as it should. Officials will be challenged to devise ways of reassuring people who are victims of crime or who witnessed an offence that they can use reasonable force to stop and detain criminals. http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1285946,00.html.
Do you think thisplan will help, and if so, what would be the best way to implement it? Or do you see it as just the same old meaningless chat?
2007-09-26 17:23:40 · 7 answers · asked by Wildamberhoney 6 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
What measures would you like to see brought in?
2007-09-26 17:31:12 · update #1
LOL betty.
2007-09-26 17:36:34 · update #2
nice to see you're all as cynical as I am.
2007-09-27 05:51:41 · update #3
Sadly, many have a go heroes have lost their life stepping in and trying to help or, stop a crime. The best way forward is to build more prisons and put people away for a reasonable time so they are not out on the sreets in the first place. Just look at how many murders are carried out by criminals who were let out early!
To give you a comparison, Mike Tyson is currently on trial for possessing cocaine and driving whilst drunk. If convicted, he faces four years in prison and in the USA will actually serve those four years. If that was in the UK it is unlikely there would be a jail sentence at all.
2007-09-26 19:32:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Retox has her facts wrong - the problem people are the ones who are on probation, it is those who hit the head lines - they are released awaiting sentence and then go and commit another crime.
The have-a-go-hero is another matter. They don't want the PCSO's getting their hands dirty, so they are making it easier for the public to have a go. Soon they will be able to get rid of the police, and with the combined forces of PCSOs and 'Neigbourhood Watch', plus H-A-G-H, we'll be rid of crime before the weekend. Oh joy.
2007-09-27 03:34:51 · answer #2 · answered by sicoll007 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. this will not help. It will be just another law to violate human rights. Too many laws on the books today. We have become a country of laws only for the benefit of the establishmet.
2007-09-27 01:22:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in Calif and we have people called the police. We pay the police people to use any kind of force they damn well feel like using to stop or cripple criminals. I'm really a chicken at heart so they can pass any law they want. I will continue to run like hell the opposite way of any situation that could cause me to cry like a nine year old girl.
2007-09-27 00:52:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
I'm not sure what they'll come up with. I think the law does need changing though.
2007-09-27 00:56:41 · answer #5 · answered by Boris of London 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It'll certainly stop little old ladies from becoming convicts if they carry their knitting needles around and use them in desparation to ward off an attack. Nothing will work, however, unless regular people can freely carry side arms.
2007-09-27 00:47:23 · answer #6 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes... No.. I'm not sure.... What do you think? Every honest citizen should be required to carry a six shooter and firearms should be denied to criminals. That would do it.
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2007-09-27 00:32:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋