Haz.
Regular Member
What ever you do in the United States, dont ever let this happen. Australians were deprived of their right to arm and defend themselves by the Howard government. Since then, the laws have changed drasticly in favour of criminals. Not only do they feel empowered knowing the majority of 'sheeple' in Aus., are unarmed and are advised and encouraged by police not to defend themselves in any way, those criminals who have been spared jail time and are supposed to be doing community service and not turning up to do so, are having their orders terminated! Again, dont laugh, its actually happening down-under.
Cheers, Haz.
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Criminals reoffending while doing community service by: Thomas Chamberlin From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) October 28, 2012 12:00AM.
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Criminals sentenced to community service are committing crimes every month while they should be cleaning up Queensland.
Shock figures show 62 per cent of offenders, or 1147 of 1840, broke the law while on the orders in the past financial year. That's almost 100 a month.
Instead of working in jobs such as sorting clothes at Lifeline, and council natural revegetation and graffiti removal projects, they've been caught committing fraud, breaking into homes, stealing cars, assaulting police and using drugs.
They originally fronted courts on assault, stealing, prostitution, vandalism, graffiti, drug and traffic-related charges but were spared jail time.
Despite committing crimes and being sent back to court, many remained on the orders.
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers told The Sunday Mail criminals were "making a mockery of the system" and called for harsher penalties.
Since 2008-09, 77 per cent of people on community service reoffended 6018 out of 7772.
Twenty per cent of orders were terminated in 2011-12 after people failed to meet court-imposed conditions.
The overall order completion rate was 2102 of 3499 orders or 60.1 per cent.
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said in a statement: "It is always concerning when offenders treat a community service order with contempt and it is something I will continue to monitor."
Queensland Corrective Services manager of operational practice Jo Dansey said the reoffending was a concern but it was a reality when there were no supervision or intensive rehabilitation programs involved.
Cheers, Haz.
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Criminals reoffending while doing community service by: Thomas Chamberlin From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) October 28, 2012 12:00AM.
h ttp://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/criminals-reoffending-while-doing-community-service/story-e6freoof-1226504525423
Criminals sentenced to community service are committing crimes every month while they should be cleaning up Queensland.
Shock figures show 62 per cent of offenders, or 1147 of 1840, broke the law while on the orders in the past financial year. That's almost 100 a month.
Instead of working in jobs such as sorting clothes at Lifeline, and council natural revegetation and graffiti removal projects, they've been caught committing fraud, breaking into homes, stealing cars, assaulting police and using drugs.
They originally fronted courts on assault, stealing, prostitution, vandalism, graffiti, drug and traffic-related charges but were spared jail time.
Despite committing crimes and being sent back to court, many remained on the orders.
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers told The Sunday Mail criminals were "making a mockery of the system" and called for harsher penalties.
Since 2008-09, 77 per cent of people on community service reoffended 6018 out of 7772.
Twenty per cent of orders were terminated in 2011-12 after people failed to meet court-imposed conditions.
The overall order completion rate was 2102 of 3499 orders or 60.1 per cent.
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said in a statement: "It is always concerning when offenders treat a community service order with contempt and it is something I will continue to monitor."
Queensland Corrective Services manager of operational practice Jo Dansey said the reoffending was a concern but it was a reality when there were no supervision or intensive rehabilitation programs involved.