Prisons overcrowded, more violent crime, more demands on prison officers than ever before?
917139
Oh it is all crap.  I am a C.O. in the states and I call myself a professional babysitter.  I dont agree with that fool saying the job is easy and talking down on C.O's because the job is extremely stressful.  He should try being locked in a room with 72 inmates and nothing but pepper spray and a radio.  He says we don't have intelligence?  Well when you don't have weapons all you have if your brain.  You must think quickly and use your communication skills to defuse situations that could be dangerous.  I have respect for both police officers and C.O's and think the pay should be more as well.
795176
In the last 4 months there have been 6 murders in less than a mile of were i live,a shooting ,stabbing ,throat slashing ,hit and run and a man beaten to death by a gang of teenagers walking home with his wife from the pub to name some...and I live in what used to be classed as a good area????so when you ask is our government tough on crime my answer would have to be No! I really fear for my children's future and would leave the UK without a second thought had i the money to do so.It makes me so sad that this country is ruled by people who are scared of doing the right thing because it might offend someone or infringe on human rights.Its time to put the law abiding honest hardworking overtaxed population first -please please please stop all this madness now !
153601
No, I think that is too high.  I have heard it from a chief of police that the cost is more like $20,000 a year.  I think you added on an extra 0, and even $33,000 is probably toward the high end.\n\nfrom another source, giving some idea of the actual costs:\n"Operating costs in New York are $24,173 per inmate, nearly $7,000 higher than the average of the other states."\n\nedit: this quote is pre-2000, but the numbers are still somewhat indicative of post-2000 costs.  check out the DOJ website below for more modern estimates.
962503
Honestly? I don't think our society (if you mean American society) has ever become sensitive to police brutality against young black men. Or black males of any age. \n\nHowever, it may seem like there has been a sudden shift in occurances of police brutatlity because they (police force) are getting worse in their out-of-control behaviour and actions. The cases of needless deaths of non-violent victims are occuring almost on a daily basis. It is dawning on people how corrupt the department, as a whole, has become. Officers shoot unresisting, unarmed men in the back now and it's outrageous and WRONG.\nIt is white and black men, white and black females.\n\nIt's disturbing. And it's scary. They're getting away with it, and being paid to do it. As a citizen of the general public, you don't even have to make 'a wrong move' to get shot to death today.\n\nAn 18 year old drunken boy was staggering to his own front door to get away from a frightening police squad and they shot him in the back 3 times because .... because why?\nHe was incoherently drunk, young, disoriented, scared and trying to get away from being pelted with beanbags. They had no provocation to shoot him but they did.\nHe was a white male.\n\nIn my opinion, it's not about race anymore (though for some officers it certainly is). For ALL police officers, it's about power now. If you do not surrender yourself completely to a police officer and show to them you are at their mercy, they will do whatever they have to, whatever they want to MAKE YOU. When their lights turn on, your rights are turned off.\n\nEver read the side of their vehicle?\nTo Protect and Serve. \nBut it isn't to protect and serve us. lol\nIt is to protect and serve themselves. \nWho are they?\nThey're employed by government.\nAnd that's exactly who they're going to protect. \nThey are merely an end result of our own government - which, clearly, is out of control and frankly, not at all ours anymore.
865203
From what I hear our prisons are over crowded due to illegals.  If that's true, the only solution is to secure our borders then send em home.  But it appears an amnesty is coming and our borders will be opening even more wide.  Once legal, we're stuck with them, so I guess we just build bigger prisons and hope for the best.
76881
Some of the things that our Justice System does never ceases to amaze me.  I have sat through many court hearings and it always surprises me that many violent offenders would get probation and the non violent or victimless crimes had the book thrown at them.  The whole system needs to be looked at and have some real changes made to it.  We have too many repeat offenders on the streets and not nearly enough people who have committed a violent crime behind bars protecting society.  Our government's war on drugs may have something to do with prosecuter's and judge's thinking when it come to those kind of crimes, because statisticly it will look like we are really cracking down on the problem, when in fact we really are getting no place with it.  Fact is drug users will probably find it easier to score while in prison than on the streets.  Nobody wants a prison or jail in their neighborhood,yet with our growing population we need more of them to fit our needs.  There will always be a portion of the population that is not going to play by the rules and be in trouble.  Those that we need to change is the Prrosecuting Attorney who makes all the deals and the Judge's that accept them.  These people are elected officials and if they do not act as we need we can vote them out.  You will find that one individual has a lot more clout in local county political races and can do a lot more by constantly working on the local level.  You can take a whole state by taking it one county at a time.  You will be surprised by how many people one voice can affect, you started by asking the question now take it a step further.
415068
As well as a Spanish Major, I'm a Criminal Justice Major too.  We get told every day about how every part of the Criminal Justice system is overbooked. First, an arrest takes 1-3 hours, and this takes up much of a law enforcement officer's day. This time could definitely be better spent.  Second, the courts are horribly overworked.  As the way it is now, it already takes months or over a year to get a case heard.  Prosecutors take on huge caseloads, as well as public defenders.  Public Defenders would have to spend more of their time on the "border jumpers" rather than Americans who commit offenses. Fourth, prison overcrowding is a widespread problem. It would cost thousands of dollars to construct new facilites, and it already costs over $20,000 a year to hold a single prisoner.  Many state budgets spend more on corrections than on education.  Fifth, parole and probation officers already have a typical caseload of 100 clients per officer.\n\nI'm not even going to go into prison life and this environment can be detrimental to someone who does not belong there.\n\nNow, somebody tell me why it would be a benefit to anyone if we make this a felony? Learn your facts before you make an opinion.
875180
i dont think its worng...depends y the police brutality is happening
453654
One of several reasons is because the birthrate has dropped considerably in the last 40 to 50 years and another is the fact that a lot of the potential murderers are already in prison.  It's not because we have become a more peaceful society.
775123
there are a couple of CNN reports on this including one\nwhich mentions Britain giving money & British ships taking evacuees. I think there's something about the prisoners from the jail being taken to another prison...\n\nhop it helps & is not too late for you
728307
I think its pretty messed up since half of all the inmates are drug users or dealers.Thats why every prison in the u.s. is so overpopulated.I'd rather have a drug dealer living next door than a sick a**child molestor living down the street just because of overcrowding.
1176566
I live in Hawaii  and ther must be 10 cops/person in Honolulu.  But we still have rampant crime.  I just return from Thailand and after 3 weeks there I saw very few cops,,, mostly directing traffic,,, but everyone was doing his own thing and seem to be living in Harmony.  We are indeed a nation of laws,, about thirty three thousands pages of them to be exact.  Remember cops are mostly to protect the wealthy not the average guy.  Have you ever seen riot police beating the heads of men in three piece suites,,,no,,, just the heads of those wanting equal treatment and to be heard
217071
Lots of people have been to prison.  Why?  Is there something in particular that you would like to know?
882218
The government was put in place to protect the people.  Do you want rapists and murderers near you?\n\nAre you saying jails are too expensive for our society to incarcerate felons?\n\nDo you have any alternative suggestions to bestow upon us?
1173550
Because we have become desensitized.  The murders are more frequent but what is more frightening is the brutality and how young the murderers are.  I am amazed at the number of girls and women that committ the really violent crimes and how many of them are done for financial gain or because someone fell out of love with them....sickos!
194186
I have some stuff to say on this: In a closed system some kinds of macro level insanity!  I was in mexican prison for a tad over two years for the offense of 'narcotraficante."  I studied the psychological components of the prisoner population.  A mini society of about 1500 males and 150 females.  Tensions of their particular blends of indidual frustration and impulsive too-long repressed anger fed into some people dying on several ocassions and this was studied from simple gangs killing one of each other's side over some trivial matter.  And another killing for one prisoner having been acused of a misdeed.  Ever more prisoners arriving and the crowding numbers reach for 1800 and on a calm warm day a clinic' drugged prisoner is shot dead between the fifteen-feet high brick wall and its paraelle twelve-foot chain-link fence.  Prisoners began to amass proximal the murder scene and within about twenty to thirty minutes the frustration and anger built to a crensendo.  A gun-tower guard had to be killed for sake of ballance and one was killed, in a most agonizing manner plus other injuries.  There's more on the gore but I'll spare you that data.  Americans know that they suffer immense frustrations with seemingly all implosive data pointing to how fu(ked we are and how we have apathy sublime.  The pot is a ways past warming and we have seen little pockets of social disorder in here and there in various city' riots.  We know that our society is gonna have to cycle a biggy one more time and when it does visit us it will but take the needed spark.  I'm sad we have let our society slip so far into our dung.  Our social-metality is producing few persons of reason.  History is ladden with examoles of these phenomena operant on macro levels.\nTreating the causes and less the symptoms could conceiveably place us into The Age of Reason and oh how a day we'd have.\nIt is taught that if you cannot learn from history then you are bound to repeat it.  After the adrenalin rushes are over, oh so spent and comfy.  The people having had enough blood letting we'd rather the dung would settle but it's all yet there.  It was diagnosed and treated and the causes but build back and entropy is operant once again.  What's the next ditty?
341990
Crime I think is due to lack of respect for others and lack of personal responsibility.\n\nThe crimes are getting more bizarre because society is sadly becoming almost immune to most crime, and so the criminals who most often seek attention from media and communities, have to up the crimes to attain the same public response that they seek.