I think there should be some sort of National Service set up for offenders, as opposed to sending them to prison. There must be a way of getting these people to serve a useful purpose, when they are not a serious danger to the public.
Yeah I agree, there's no need for these people to go to prison, a lot of people calling for a harsh sentence on this have a cognitive dissonance where they normally would agree that prison "does no good" etc. Prison should be for keeping dangers to society away from the public.
They should be given a community order where they plant thousands of trees, and chuck a tag on them so they can't go out at night. I would still give them an incredibly onerous sentence, but not one behind bars.
I agree that a 10 year community service order where they spend 50 hours a week digging ditches, clearing ponds and planting trees would be more effective than a custodial sentence especially if they were paid minimum wage and their bank accounts monitored
Apparently there are 1.3bn trees in the UK. The time, money, resource etc. spent finding the guys who cut this one down is immense, given that almost none of that would have occurred for 99.9% of the other trees here.
I get why it turns into a big deal, but given that I had £30k worth of equipment nicked recently and the only bit of police work that occurred was a search for a van that was spotted in the area, that turned out to be a fucking police van, I am a little annoyed at how police resource is spent!
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They should be given a community order where they plant thousands of trees, and chuck a tag on them so they can't go out at night. I would still give them an incredibly onerous sentence, but not one behind bars.
I get why it turns into a big deal, but given that I had £30k worth of equipment nicked recently and the only bit of police work that occurred was a search for a van that was spotted in the area, that turned out to be a fucking police van, I am a little annoyed at how police resource is spent!