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Originally Posted by Otto347
All the more reason for public execution...................
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+1 there would be no repeat offenders
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Originally Posted by gearhead55
Yea i think you're right. Like i said earlier, thats why in a situation like the one in this video anyone with a conscience has to get involved.
BTW you mentioned how the legal system works where you live, where do you live? I'm sorry to hear that the guys that out you in the hospital never saw legal justice.
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I live in northern illinois. Things like my scenario are fairly frequent. Next month my wife has to serve as a witness in a property damage incident she witnessed in 2004. The case has been in courts for 7 years now.
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Originally Posted by ronmcdon
The thing is, you don't even know if jail/prison works as punishment.
I'm willing to bet this wasn't the first, nor the last time the said perp will get in legal trouble.
civil lawsuits do have the potential to be more effective.
nobody likes to get sued for their money.
not sure how it works, if they don't have money to begin with.
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If they don't have money the victims get less. It happened to me. Civil lawsuits do nothing to people with nothing to lose. People without a penny are the ones out causing trouble.
There has to be an effective means of punishing perps/isolating them from better adjusted members of society. As far as I can tell jail is pretty cush other than the obvious drawbacks. If you had a crummy life to begin with jail isn't that bad at all. The fact that I can say that honestly is an indicator that the system is broken. And the fact that there are so many repeat offenders is also an indicator the system is broken.
I think we as a nation need to make petty crime less appealing. You would think felony assault would be a big deal but if it was, this wouldn't continue to happen. I don't think there would be much less of this if people were punished more effectively. Toss these girls in the cell with some real violent offenders for a couple weeks in the federal pen and see how much they want to go back.
As much as I'd like to see something effective take place I know some publc defender is going to hash out a deal and these girls will be back out on the street in at best a few months time.