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Are we going soft on crime?

Posted by: 2UE | 23 January, 2012 - 7:27 AM
Youth crime now seen as a badge of honour?

The NSW Attorney-General is pushing for more sentences to be served in the community, in a bid to ease the pressure on over-crowded jails. Jason Morrison on whether Greg Smith is going soft on crime.

 

 

It's claimed the State Government could extend a softening of sentences for minor crimes to also apply to gun crimes - Derick Petersen with the details.

 

Stuart Bocking speaks with President of Victims of Crime Assistance League Howard Brown on the softening of sentences for minor crimes. Plans to lock-up fewer small-time criminals, is it more likely to reduce crime, than increase it?


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  • how about making criminals the ones who pay the compensation, insurance, clean up and medical costs as well as court punishments, that will give them some perspective to what harm and damage they do.
    eg. your car gets vandalised but the crime gets a tap on the hand and the owner has to pay through the nose for repairs, and thats not even counting inconveiniences. Can`t see Pat O`shane grasping that one though.

    John Archer Tuesday 24 January, 2012 - 11:12 AM

  • Don't expect too much from the lawmakers/magistrates/solicitors who are part of an arrogant egotistical $$$legal-fraternity. Keep in mind 99% of them give the other 1% a bad name. Got the message now!

    Eliza Tuesday 24 January, 2012 - 12:35 AM

  • Dear oh dear! I never ever thought I would be hearing this from a member of the new NSW Government only elected in March 2011. This reads like they have given up the plot to treat all areas of crime seriously. Looks like this dope of an Attorney General has lost the plot. I would have expected this sort of outcome from the rotten incompetent Gillard minority communist government.

    Samuel J James Monday 23 January, 2012 - 9:13 PM

  • Pink striped uniforms and work details sound good to me. Zero tolerance for repeat offenders. Make incarceration an unpleasant experience.

    Stewart Monday 23 January, 2012 - 4:20 PM

  • ZERO TOLERANCE;
    Are we going soft on crime? Well thats a silly question, just look at all the crime happening, the roaming, marauding criminals are miles in front and gaining more ground by the minute. We used to be able to live peacefully without all this crime happening-right before our eyes. What happened?? The troubling NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith is clearly out of touch. Pussy-footing Greg Smith & Police Minister Mike Gallacher etc for that matter, do not seem to understand, that we must forcefully and aggressively get rid of this scourge on our society, right now. ["modern day criminality"!!!] Before one of our own families becomes just another statistic, lost in amongst police files. This wavering, gibbering Liberal Barry O'Farrell Government are becoming a disappointment in a lot of areas, they need to ACTIVELY deal with the horrible reality, yesterday!

    Pierre L Monday 23 January, 2012 - 11:28 AM

  • Most jails are training centres for up and coming crimms, rehab is the only way to get the on the straight and narrow

    Peter Monday 23 January, 2012 - 7:36 AM

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