“Green light” for Shoplifting and Drug Use as Government Review set to Recommend “Out of Court Resolutions” for “Low Level” Criminals
Shoplifting and drug use are being given a “green light” as a Government review is set to recommend “out of court resolutions” for thousands of “low level” criminals to ease the backlog in the justice system. The Mail has more.
A government review led by former High Court judge Sir Brian Leveson will recommend that “out of court resolutions” are used routinely for “low-tier” including theft, drug-taking and some public order offences.
The move will mean many more offenders will escape with a slap on the wrist, with some not even receiving a criminal record.
One lawyer tonight said: “This will give a green light to shoplift and do drugs.”
Sir Brian will also propose increasing the “discount” for a guilty plea from one-third to 40% of an offender’s sentence.
Coupled with recent plans to allow offenders to serve just one-third of their sentence, the move would see some criminals serve less than a fifth of their nominal sentence.
The recommendations, which have been leaked to the Daily Mail, will fuel concerns that Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to go soft on crime to ease the backlog in the courts and overcrowding in Britain’s prisons.
Sir Brian is also expected to call for an end to jury trials in some cases, including complex frauds.
Suspects charged with mid-level offences like causing actual bodily harm, will lose the right to have their case heard by a jury and will instead go before an ‘intermediate’ court comprised of magistrates and a judge to save time.
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Many Blue States in the US already tried this. Mostly it ends in carnage, totally undermining any remaining respect for liberal policing. Maybe we’ll learn exactly what the Democrats learned.
Then again, it’s more likely that our British metro types will double down and pull out the final foundation stone of society.
When Imperial Japan occupied Korea all the police were sacked and replaced by criminals released from jails. An interesting experiment with a new type of ‘law and order’. One that enabled the occupier to control the populace with intimidation.
This plead-guilty-for-an-hour’s-community-service is the state cooperating with criminals to ease the pressure the criminals have placed on the system by sheer weight of numbers. The state maintains its own rule while the criminals wreak havoc on the law abiding public.
“…pull out the final foundation stone of society.”
That is very much what this is aimed at.
In the meantime, Lucy Connolly is still in jail.
Again, this is straight from the Stalinist rulebook, where it was normal for actual criminals to get lighter sentences than political prisoners.
I was about to make the exact same comment.
I thought shoplifting and doing drugs already have a green light?
They do if you’re not white.
And this pitiful attempt recently to stop fare dodgers on the London Underground and National Rail is an example of this.
I have witnessed innumerable examples of young persons of colour pushing their way through ticket gates while members of staff of colour slouch nearby watching while not intervening. And in some cases the traveller of colour speaks to the staff member of colour and with the touching of clenched hands the traveller is let through without a ticket.
All this must be on CCTV.
It would make me livid if I lived in London and as a law-abiding, fare-paying person, I witnessed this on the regular. They’re basically rubbing everybody’s noses in it and complicit TFL staff should be reported. And what’s the betting it’s these very fare-dodgers that are the culprits vandalizing the trains with their graffiti? It stands to reason that if you pay nothing and ride for free you’ll have zero respect for the service provided. They’re pig-ignorant, anti-social arseholes that couldn’t give a toss about anyone else. They probably think they’re untouchable because the ‘race card’ will be utilized to the max, no doubt.
in my opinion, social cohesion has to be based on a respect for the law. If people can pick and choose what bit of the law apply to them, then we have anarchy. You might as well not have laws and not have police to maintain them, or judiciary to prosecute the wrong doer. What is the point.? Eventually it will come down to individual citizens to defend their interests and property.
It is not people picking and choosing what bits of law apply but the authorities also.
White “you’re nicked.”
Black “on your way.”
No right for jury on mid level offences sounds fair enough until you’re accused of them…
They also carry custodial terms…
How many “rioters” who pleaded not guilty would be classed as mid tier and only face the establishment
Retailers will start closing down shops or pulling out of the UK altogether. Not a good look.
So crime does pay.
“Low level” crime is not “low level” when it happens to you.
Shoplifting is a high level crime, perpetrated by serial thieves and gangs that make a living out of it, and leads to increased costs for the retailer and increased prices for shoppers. Everyone pays for this except those guilty of the crime.
What a great country. For a minute there I thought Joe Biden had taken charge along with his soros bought attorney generals who decided it was absolutely fine to steal anything under $1,000. Great work Uk, you will very soon become a police state run by god only knows who, but it will not be good.
The government clearly thinks that drug use and shoplifting are no longer a problem, both being cured by a lifetime on benefits (and now WW2 Kitchens coming to a town like yours).