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whitebird wroteNice to see that like most reactionaries with a nice line in "country's going down the tubes" rhetoric, you've just ignored the overall drop in the crime rate and cherry picked the one statistic which supports your argument.Except that it doesn't, particularly, because the police have changed the way they count the number of violent crimes since the last lot of figures.Bloke getting locked up for non-payment of fines is hardly bloody surprising. Would you complain if he'd incurred the original fine for criminal damage when he pushed a bike over? A fine is a fine, cough up or go to gaol, that's how it works.Motoring offences include such charming activities as causing death by dangerous driving, causing death by driving drunk, joyriding and aggravated vehicle taking (carjacking.) Remember that safety officer bloke who knocked off and killed a biker? Remember how there was baying for blood from the members of this site? Harsher sentencing for motoring offences is as a direct result of that kind of pressure from the public.Oh bollocks to it I'm wasting my time. Now I'm as cynical as the next bloke (who happens to be you in this case), but according to the article in The Sun (I know, I know, but you can only work with what you're given), 12,469 of the 15,039 motorists incarcerated were so imprisoned for offences termed as 'not serious'.Admittedly there is a dearth of information as to the nature of these non-serious and minor offences, but on first face, the fact that 12,469 motorists were imprisioned for non-serious offences merits further comment and/or investigation regardless of the fact that these figures were compared with burglaries to provoke the more extreme reactions as seen in this thread.
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