Right......... Quick recap on crime and punishment in our country today!
I can sort it out here and now.
People who commit a crime get punished.
People who fail to pay a bill or their Community charge, work something out with them. Let them pay, Realistically, what they can pay.
People on benefits and claim that they are jobseeking, offer them 2 jobs where the renumeration will give them a reasonable standard of living, ie no booze, drugs or fag money so they can pay the bills that matter and then take away their benefits if they refuse the jobs.
We need to get tougher on our policing as well. Anyone caught carrying a knife, 5 years hard labour. Anyone caught carrying a gun, whether it be a replica or not, 10 years Hard labour. Antisocial behaviour, 6 month`s Hard labour, no community service, ffs this does not work.!!!
No tolerance of crime, our courts have gone so soft!

If you commit a crime you know what you are doing, you are going to disrupt somebody`s life and try and take something that does not belong to you.
Get off your arse and go and earn it for yourself.