There is a case today where a citizen chased after some youths, on the instructions of the police, and detained them until the police arrived.
The person, who was following police orders, was found guilty by a magistrate. The youths probably got off with a warning. That criminals are regularly treated as first class citizens by magistrates seems backwards, particularly in light of this case.
We regularly see news where someone who has killed a person while driving too fast gets off with a suspended sentence but someone who does something minor ends up in jail. Criminals are never given full sentences and even if they are they get out on parole in a fraction of the time.
The biggest excuse is that prisons are full. OK here is an idea let's use the infrastructure money from Rudd's stimulus plan to build prisons. It will keep people actively employed and allow judges to give real sentences for real crimes instead of letting them back out on the streets to do it all over again.
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