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| Satellites will track 5,000 of the worst criminals in Britain |
| 2004-07-18 |
| Maybe this technology should be used on POW's released from Abu Prison, Camp Bucca Satellite technology will be used to track 5,000 career criminals who are responsible for one in every 10 crimes in Britain, the Home Secretary David Blunkett will announce tomorrow. The radical new technology, which has been developed in the US, will enable law enforcement officers to pinpoint the exact location of criminals who have been released early from prison and fitted with electronic tags. It will feature among a series of measures in a five-year plan to tackle burgeoning violent crime and antisocial behaviour. Home Office figures released next week will show police forces recording rises as high as 25 per cent. A Home Office source said: "We are the largest users of tagging outside the US and we will continue to do this. We will introduce satellite tracing for prolific offenders as well as for domestic violence and sex offenders."... Of course, one wonders why the UK[or the US for that matter] releases these repeat low life criminals in the first place... |
| Posted by:rex |
| #5 Tony - much as I like England, have you considered moving to the U.S.? It's not like the language would be all that hard to learn.... :-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-07-18 6:13:23 PM |
| #4 Tony(UK),better be careful,or you'll be wearing one of the tags. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-07-18 2:34:53 PM |
| #3 Rex - you're spot on mate. I think they should be (a) locked up for life - real life, in a custom 5,000 'seater' prison so they can't infect anyone else, or (b) shoot them. As you're not allowed to defend yourself in this country, it's no wonder that violent crime and anti-social behaviour is up 25% (we really need to understand the root causes of crime after all...) Typically, this dumb-ass government adds on sex offenders (paedophiles are everywhere in the UK donchaknow?) and domestic violence offenders (to satisfy the femi-Nazis in the labour party). But then Blunkett is a wanker with this "don't say anything nasty about Islam" law he's shafting us with. Yes, I am annoyed about all this... |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2004-07-18 2:18:02 PM |
| #2 Only if the satellites were armed with a lay-ser could this be considered better than prison. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-18 12:26:25 PM |
| #1 Presumably they will tag the guy who shot a burglar and was then sent to prison.And in related news there is a sudden hacksaw shortage in Britain. |
| Posted by: Stephen 2004-07-18 12:24:05 PM |