I've said it maybe a million times on here harsher sentences do not reduce the reoffending rate (and therefore risk to the public), money spent on effective rehabilitation and interventions does.
Er, yes, keeping someone in jail for the rest of their natural lives does reduce the risk to the general public to virtually nil.
I’m highly in favour of all released murderers being sent to live in Islington, Hampstead or Highgate where the left wing virtue signallers that advocate for them live. It’ll never happen which is why they feel so confident advocating for them. They get the thrill of thinking themselves virtuous but they sack off the actual problem of dealing with it to a council estate in Barnsley, Hull, Rochdale or Blackpool without a second thought.
I used to be passionately anti-death penalty but I’m finding that harder and harder to sustain because lives of victims just seem worthless to our elite. At least if they’re dead you won’t end up with a parole board of do gooders letting them out because they know their actions are free from scrutiny and if they fuck up they never have to account for that. There’s been so many high profile recalls to jail recently where they got it wrong in the first place like Tracey Connelly, Jason Owen and John Venables.
Maybe if someone gets done for a one punch murder or a stabbing done while off their nut when young and v remorseful a second chance is acceptable but not three infants for no reason.
To me it just adds to a growing sense that to the establishment, politicians, civil servants, police, the judiciary the lives and votes and needs of the general population are just worthless. Less than worthless. We just don’t matter.