Off To Jail

[DivineMissG]

Alot of the time short sentences/dismissals are due to bad police work... Rather than the court system failing... Unfortunately you don't need to be a genius to be a cop... In fact, in Australia you have less chance of joining the force if you have a degree!

Unfortunately universities don't give degrees in commonsense, so I am not sure that's relevant. In fact I've known some policemen with degrees, and they were among the stupidest people I've met, but what was worse was they thought they were something special because they had been to university. Worse still they were on an accelerated promotion scheme!

In this country it's not the police that are at fault it's the stupid CPS, who usually don't prosecute the cases as strongly as the police would have done in the good old days.

Point taken and you're absolutely correct! I guess the point I was trying to make is that our police force tend to recruit those who have the gung-ho 'group think' mentality playing follow the leader... Unfortunately that means sometimes it's the blind leading the blind...