Loads, either way, they don’t care about any deterrent. Deterrent doesn’t work, so continually upping sentences to add more of it is a fool’s game.
And another argument against the death penalty. My emotional self often wishes we could bring it back when you hear about certain crimes. But then I’m aware that convictions get overturned decades later sometimes and the evidence is that the death penalty has little to no deterrent effect
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Quite early on in my staff career, I had a cadet come to me with this exact concern - he’d seen another cadet in the locker rooms move a knife from one pocket to another.
Thankfully, my OC at the time was a copper, so it very quickly became somebody else’s problem!
I would, in all honesty, do the same again. Make sure the remaining cadets are as safe as I can, and contact the police in the most appropriate fashion - be that 999 or a quick word with the boss.
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Then you have people like Venables who with Thompson murdered Jamie Bulger, paroled a couple of times and went onto reoffend using drugs and child pornography and breaking his licence. He’s up for parole again and will probably get it, what do you do with people like him, or Harold Shipman, Joanna Denahey, Ian Huntley and many others in the system whose crimes are so evil?
What about those as the three recent cases handled by Merseyside Police where people were murdered with firearms in the furtherance of criminality, nailed bang to rights and sentenced up to 50 years in prison as a minimum, or those released on licence who go onto murder again?
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We’re discussing things that make us laugh, none of the above is funny. Take it elsewhere or I’ll just delete the posts.
Random fact…
The walking distance from my kids Pre-School to home is Genesis, Land of Confusion…
That is all…
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as a follow up to this: You know what really grinds my gears? The Gears Strike Back - #5129 by steve679
I am not laughing as it would seem the book syas “BACS payments cannot go through Branch Accounts and must go direct to the Poppy Appeal” (the situation being the Branch supplies a dozen wreaths to the local community and collect the payment, the book says we cannot collect it via BACS into the Branch account and then send on
I pushed back on this with those up the chain and they have replied
it would not be correct procedure for us to demand membership follow processes/guidance
basically admitting that although the book says we can’t/shouldn’t they are in no position to do anything about it if we choose to anyway!
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Manchester United 
Ten hag might get his p45 now
Who would want the job? An up and coming manager, we’ll look what happened to Potter when he went to Chelsea, didn’t last long. They could always send for ‘Big Sam’ and little Sam. An established manager would want an awful lot of money to take on that shambles of a team and by extension the club.
Only two managers in the Premiership who have that 1% a top manger needs to be successful these days and that’s my clubs manager Jurgen Klopp and City’s Guardiola. Guardiola is probably sweating on the FFP ruling but it isn’t until this time next year and Klopp is not far off building Liverpool reloaded as he calls it. If speculation pans out Mo Salah could go to Saudi at the end of the season for £460,000,000, a nice little profit on him.
MML. Henry the hoover is full so I emptied him out and fitted a new one. Noticed it was the last bag we have. May have dropped a hint that Mrs BF is getting new Henry bags for Christmas.
She went mental. Totally over the top reaction.
So she is definitely getting Henry bags for Christmas. Two loads of them. Wrapped separately for good measure.
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Live dangerously… You’ve got a deathwish…
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Seeing a drunk Brenda Edwards at work today - not what I expected at 13:30 on a sunday 
GMG Sky Mobile appears to be down atm
MML - the following is showing as a Status checker on Sky website
Sly internet was down when i went to bed at 1am
that is inline with
I’m with Sky and it was fine when I went to bed at about 2300, and fine when I woke up at about 0600!
It interupted my netflix spiral last night
Mazel tov
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