Lawlessness
| by Daniel J. M. Galpin | August 21, 2007
The plain and simple fact is that nations who deal with criminals, have less crime. Many who oppose the death penalty say, "what about the one who is convicted, that's actually innocent?" That is a legitimate question and it has happened. They also say, "it does not prevent crime, so why do it?" Also a legitimate question.
To the second question, It is successfully provable that the death penalty DOES prevent crime. Thanks to Police Records we know about 80% of crime is done by repeat offenders. So if there's 10,000 murder convictions, in time we know there will be 8,000 more by repeat offenders. Yet if those 10,000 persons are put to death, we have 8,000 less crimes. PLUS, a criminal makes his/her choices basis on a risk to reward ratio, as do investors, thus, if the odds of capture equals death, they may consider other options. There will of course always be those that think they can beat the system and for those, we should have the death penalty. ADDITIONALLY an update regarding the lawyer / client privilege is needed and you can view my thoughts on that on the Crime page. It's on my campaign site.
The population can be divided into 3 categories: 10% will do all in their power to obey all the laws, 10% will do all in their power to break the laws regardless of the risk and the 80% in the middle watch the 10% that defy the law to see what will happen to them. If the criminals are swiftly and justly punished, the 80% will be less likely to take such risks, but if the 10% get away with their crimes as is prevalent in our country, the 80% will join them. Lawlessness will abound.
As for the first question, this is a sad but true fact. Currently more innocent victums die due to repeat crimes. All I can say is that if one in 10,000 suffer falsely so that 8,000 others will live. It is something we must endure until such a time that technology enables us to change this. That time is actually not far off. We have it in place at this time, it is merely not used for this purpose at this time. In time that will change, especially in light of global terrorist.
To the second question, It is successfully provable that the death penalty DOES prevent crime. Thanks to Police Records we know about 80% of crime is done by repeat offenders. So if there's 10,000 murder convictions, in time we know there will be 8,000 more by repeat offenders. Yet if those 10,000 persons are put to death, we have 8,000 less crimes. PLUS, a criminal makes his/her choices basis on a risk to reward ratio, as do investors, thus, if the odds of capture equals death, they may consider other options. There will of course always be those that think they can beat the system and for those, we should have the death penalty. ADDITIONALLY an update regarding the lawyer / client privilege is needed and you can view my thoughts on that on the Crime page. It's on my campaign site.
The population can be divided into 3 categories: 10% will do all in their power to obey all the laws, 10% will do all in their power to break the laws regardless of the risk and the 80% in the middle watch the 10% that defy the law to see what will happen to them. If the criminals are swiftly and justly punished, the 80% will be less likely to take such risks, but if the 10% get away with their crimes as is prevalent in our country, the 80% will join them. Lawlessness will abound.
As for the first question, this is a sad but true fact. Currently more innocent victums die due to repeat crimes. All I can say is that if one in 10,000 suffer falsely so that 8,000 others will live. It is something we must endure until such a time that technology enables us to change this. That time is actually not far off. We have it in place at this time, it is merely not used for this purpose at this time. In time that will change, especially in light of global terrorist.
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