22-08-2019, 08:00 PM
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Re: Should UK police officers be routinely carrying Tasers?
Originally Posted by big ben
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no matter how many extra police are recruited, no matter whether they are all armed, be it with death rays, machine guns, poison darts etc; crime will still be rife until those at the top make punishment fit the crime and tell those 'do gooding busy bodies' to go to hell.
22-08-2019, 09:59 PM
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Re: Should UK police officers be routinely carrying Tasers?
Its Ok to carry a Taser as a deterrent, and present should the situation arise, its the trigger pulling, and making an undiagnosed dicky ticker sufferer Breakdance, when, after analysis, there was no case to answer.One day, you could be an unintentional Breakdancer, one is one too many.
23-08-2019, 02:43 AM
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Re: Should UK police officers be routinely carrying Tasers?
Originally Posted by Tedc
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Spot on!Let the punishment really worry the baddies.
1 year for assaulting a hospital worker.
3 years for being caught carrying a weapon.
5 years for assaulting a law enforcement officer.
No reductions - fixed punishments.
Hard Labour.
In my opinion 5 years is far too long anyway.
23-08-2019, 07:48 AM
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Re: Should UK police officers be routinely carrying Tasers?
Originally Posted by Baz46
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Should our police be routinely carrying Tasers as protection against the rising levels of violence towards themselves and other members of society?
Every other police force in Europe does so - not just the Americans - and you don't hear of European police being prosecuted for incorrect discharges.
23-08-2019, 10:09 AM
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Re: Should UK police officers be routinely carrying Tasers?
Originally Posted by galty
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Edited before I saw your reply.I have a massive problem with spelling so I don't need sneering remarks about my afflection
the spell check is my online best friend. If I'm not sure of even that, I go to google. My daughter is worse, she is dyslexic.
23-08-2019, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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Why is assaulting a hospital worker only one fifth as serious as assaulting a bloke that presumably is trained to defend himself? That is absurd. Assaulting any frontline public service worker should have the same penalty. Indeed you could argue that assaulting a paramedic is a far more serious an offence.In my opinion 5 years is far too long anyway.
As for the sentences being too long they rarely serve a whole sentence most as only half that length as they are released at the half way mark or earlier.
23-08-2019, 12:20 PM
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Re: Should UK police officers be routinely carrying Tasers?
Originally Posted by big ben
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No matter how many extra police are recruited, No matter whether they are all armed, be it with death rays, machine guns, poison darts etc; crime will still be rife until those at the top make punishment fit the crime and tell those 'do gooding busy bodies' to go to Hell.
I cannot understand any practical reason for reducing sentence from what we had to what we have now.
The evidence to prove that was a stupid decision is plain for all to see.
23-08-2019, 12:24 PM
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Re: Should UK police officers be routinely carrying Tasers?
Originally Posted by JBR
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I completely agree.I cannot understand any practical reason for reducing sentence from what we had to what we have now.
The evidence to prove that was a stupid decision is plain for all to see.
23-08-2019, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962
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I believe it was money JBR, keeping a person in prison is expensive and they won't build more prisons so something had to be done.
Do-gooders will be up in arms to hear this, but I think our prisons should go back to Victorian basics: a cell, simple food and water and no other niceties. Certainly no TVs, Playstations, etc. Neither should there be any 'socialisation' or get-togethers. Their day should be filled with hard labour, meals and occasional rests in their individual cells.
As others have said, the prisons could be funded at least in part by the products of the prisoners' hard labour.
Prisons should be a punishment and a deterrent.
Serious repeat offenders should also receive corporal punishment; something to look forward to towards the end of their internment.
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