http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7534337.stm
'Digby Johnson, of the Johnson Partnership in Nottingham, said: "Offenders who would normally face court and serious sentences are walking away with a ticket in their back pocket.
"I've known a caution for a serious offence of actual bodily harm where the victim required stitches.
"A caution was issued for having a house full of cannabis plants. A 20-year-old man who had unlawful sex with a 15-year-old was cautioned."
The latest Home Office figures, and other evidence gathered by the BBC, appear to support the lawyers' claims that the number of offenders being prosecuted in court is in decline.
A spokesman for Her Majesty's Court Service said figures for the number of defendants appearing before the courts peaked in 2004, but then began to drop.
The latest figures from 2006 show appearances fell by more than 10% in two years to 1.78 million. Magistrates believe the next figures due out in November will show an even greater reduction.'
Weird huh? So why do think that is happening? I think I know at least part of the answer.
I recently saw up close and personal the dysfunctions of the system. I was assaulted, and insisted that the person who did it go to court and be punished. The Police and subsequently the detectives who handled the case were superb. I have no complaints about their responsiveness or professionalism. They did exactly what they were supposed to do throughout. When it got to court, everything changed. First, the prosecution council came in to ask us if we wouldn't mind him dropping the prosecution. After picking my chin up off the floor, I asked him why we would want to do that, after all the effort that had gone in to getting this person prosecuted. He said that the guy was older, and was a fine upstanding citizen and blah blah blah. He also said that there was a fair chance the guy would be acquitted. I said something along the lines of 'but its an open and shut case, we have all the witness statements and photos of the injuries caused' and he just looked shifty.
When the case was being heard, the prosecution was absolutely appalling. I could have done a better job from watching 'Law and Order' and not being a moron. The prosecutor didn't challenge any of the ludicrous things the defense said, some of which were defamatory and disgusting. The defense was a succession of rediculous lies- didn't matter. The prosecution was there in name only. So after hundreds of Police-hours and detective-hours and magistrate-hours and our time, the guy was acquitted despite being plainly guilty.
My immediate thought was what that must be like for the Police and detectives. How many days does their hard work end up being trounced in the courts by the idiots at the CPS, many of whom are Guardianista hippies who don't believe in punishment for crime, especially where minorities and the poor are concerned? Over months and years, the Police and detectives must just give up on the whole regime, and consider that SOME punishment, whether a caution or on-the-spot fine is better than huge amounts of wasted time and no conviction to show at the end.
The hippies and wastrels who now occupy many parts of our bureacracy, whether it is in the civil service, local government, the secret service or the legal system, are undermining the overt functions and purposes of those organisations. Why is Britain full of illegal aliens? Why are local taxes so staggeringly high? Why can't we trust our secret service to protect the nation? Why doesn't the CPS convict criminals? Because those organisations are run by a bunch of old hippies who don't believe in borders, who want socialism by the back door, who hate fuddy-duddy white Britain, who see the poor as victims of the capitalist system and therefore not guilty by reason of class warfare.
Communism may have bitten the dust in the Soviet Union and East Germany, but it is alive and well in Haringey and Hackney and Tower Hamlets.
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