Whether or not the
defendants in Making a Murderer are innocent or guilty it demonstrates the
weight of responsibility on individual police officers, lawyers and judges to
play their part in making the criminal justice system appear fair. Is it worth
it?
There are savings
to be had in shooting persistent
offenders. The strain on the criminal
justice system could be further reduced by decriminalising
drugs and lifting restrictions on alcohol consumption. The existing laws are
perfectly adequate to prosecute drunken and/or drug fuelled antisocial behaviour
however penalties could be increased in a
way that offenders are never seen again. This
should keep the student population under control.
Citizens should be encouraged to have a go and
stop complaining to the police. With unrestricted access to fatal doses and a morgue, Hospital Emergency Departments would be less
busy on Saturday nights if they had permission to dispose of trouble makers themselves rather
than calling for police assistance.
With the dreary
habitual offenders gone, courts could focus on the entertaining and interesting
cases which are most likely to attract sponsorship and TV royalties.
If Judges were given absolute authority and relieved of
the obligation to appear fair, we could expect every trial to end in the
execution of someone or other. Rather than being glared at lawyers could be
flogged for getting a section number wrong. Submissions would improve. If glancing
at a mobile phone could result in the loss of a hand,
people are more likely to remember to turn then off.
Soon police officers
would return to helping old ladies across the road, lawyers to commercial law and fair judges to a well-earned retirement.
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