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Crime and Punishment in Queensland

Posted by: Michael Smith | 3 December, 2009 - 1:17 PM
police

What should happen to a drink driver on his 19th conviction?

How about a mongrel who ploughs into a group of kids at 100 Ks – is a $600 fine OK?

Are you happy that car thieves can decide whether or not they’ll let the police talk to them?    Is it OK for our community that police are directed to let car thieves drive away scot-free?

And is gaol time in Queensland a real punishment, is it a deterrent?

To me, the honest people of Queensland can expect to get hammered with fines and policing, while the mongrel criminal class get away with no real punishment.

I am not happy with the state of law and order in Queensland.   Decent people can expect a $2,000 fine for not filling out a BS Sustainability Declaration about their own property, their home – while some human virus ploughs into a group of children, skittles a little girl and gets a $600 fine.

So 4BC will lead a community forum to let our politicians know how we feel.   It will take place early in the New Year but we need your help now.

What are the issues that concern you?   What would you like to see happen as a result of this forum?   Let me know of your concerns and I’ll put your thoughts together into an agenda for our elected officials and appointed magistrates and judges.

I look forward to your responses, please let your friends know about this blog – I’m deadly serious about putting our law makers on the spot and letting them know how you feel.

Blog comments Your Say

  • We have to strart with the young offenders , If they break the law they get a term in a boot camp and they are taught a trade . They are dragged out of bed every day at five am and made do a five mile run , They then come back have a shower and then they go to trade school . They are forced into bed every night by 8 pm and they are taught respect .

    Peter Schuback Tuesday 28 September, 2010 - 7:14 PM
  • AND ORDER IN QUEENSLAND AND AUSTRALIA
    LAWTHE WAY LAW AND ORDER IS IN QUEENSLAND IT IS NON-EXCISTANT IT NEEDS SOME FIXING I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME CHANGESTHERE SHOULD BE A ZERO TOLLARANCE AND THAT INCLUDES EVERY ONE INCLUDING CHILDREN FORM 8YEARS OLD.

    1.THERE SHOULD BE A SYSTEM OF MINIMUM SENTANCING, DIFERENT MINIMUM SENTANCES FOR DIFFERENT CRIMES. A FEW EXAMPLES PREMEADITATED MURDER 30YEARS THAT MEANS NO PAROLL BEFORE THAT TIME, RAPE 20YEARS, MANSULTER 12 YEARS ETC.
    2 FOR EVERY CRIME THAT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE ON THE STATUED BOOKS NOW, AND ANY NEW ONES THAT NEED TO BE ADDED THEY ALL SHUOLD HAVE A ZERO TOLLARANCE AND A MINIMUM SETANCE ATTCHED TO IT BUT CAN HAVE A MAXIMUM SENTANCE APPLIED IF THE COURTS THINKS IT APOPARITE

    rick douglas Sunday 14 March, 2010 - 4:54 PM
  • The sentences received by criminals is only PART of the problem. Now, they are sent to low security farms in droves and high security prisons are sitting at WAY below capacity!

    David McInnes Monday 18 January, 2010 - 10:22 AM
  • We have reached the point
    where law and order and public safety has become an
    obscene joke.The clowns of
    this circus are the politicians who refuse to pass effective laws,the judges who refuse to make the
    punishment fit the crime,and
    the bleeding heart left who
    cheer them on.And of course
    the joke is on the majority
    of law abiding citizens who
    have all but forgotten what
    it feels like to be safe in
    their own homes and their
    own communities.Mimimum
    sentenances,judges who are
    accountable to the people
    and the idea that if you do
    the crime you do the time
    must become the basis of a
    return to real law and
    order in this state. The first step will be to toss
    Captain Bligh and her useless
    crew overboard at the earliest opportunity.

    peter hansen Sunday 17 January, 2010 - 8:05 AM
  • I see no purpose in inviting any member of our State Government, including the Attorney General to a Public forum to address Crime without punishment.
    Only Opposition Mps, Police and citizens should be present with the aim to correct the decay with the next LNP Government.

    The polls have shown the Premier that the writing is on the wall and she may fail at the next election, this would explain all the Global junkets, spend the money while you're still in office, you may not get another chance, they all do it.

    During 20 years of Labor Government, they have only laughed at our protests about putting serious criminals back on the streets and fully suspending sentences, each day it has got progressively worse and if you did a graph of our vanishing justice, it would resemble the fabricated "hockey stick".

    I despise the present Queensland Government and so do many who voted for them and volunteered their services at election time, they have told me so and don't make the mistake of assuming that I only vote Liberal, on the 2 occasions when the Coalition ripped up their agreement at election time, they proved "united we stand, divided we fall", idiots never get my vote.

    Leonie Friday 15 January, 2010 - 3:38 PM
  • I beleive the only way to stop this drunken violence in our cities, is to put the offenders into a 'drunk tank' and have to go before a magistrate the next morning and be fined a minimum of $500.00 if they cannot pay, not to be released until the debt is paid, and if they reoffend jail time of 10days to 3 months depending on the serverity of the offence. Money and time in jail I feel is the only way these people will learn.

    Kay Betterton Friday 15 January, 2010 - 2:54 PM

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