Crime Courts Law

[Emphyrio]

Overcrowded prisons is the first hurdle that needs to be dealt with. Under no circumstances should someone accrue 100+ convictions. I'm all for diversion programs etc after the first 1 or maybe 2 offences but let's be real here, these yobs are very unlikely to be "diverted". It's idealistic and unrealistic to believe so.

I see it everyday. Little Johnny is a harmless darling. Except he's not, not even in the slightest and now he has caused the death of someone.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

All IQ discourse rubs me up the wrong way, full stop (cos IQ is a bullshit measure), but especially this recently re-popularized by Trump et al "low IQ individuals" thing. A pet peeve, and a total aside to the subject at hand, sorry.

[Barnacle Billy]

[John Kimble]

To be fair, I think it's pretty obvious what any reasonable person means when they associate 'low IQ' with deliberately driving a stolen vehicle down the wrong side of a motorway into oncoming traffic. It's not an invitation to a wider discourse about the merits of IQ as a reliable indicator of intelligence. People are perfectly entitled to feel outraged by this without having to keep their language in check.