Victoria today – the State of atrocities
Every day we hear tragic news about little children, victims of the ever evil of pedophiles. Then we hear even more tragic news that their little bodies are found. It would be difficult to imagine a subject today that occupies the minds of Victorians more than the subject of violent crime! The people in government and judiciary would have us believe that our crime rate is falling. They tell us that we have less criminals caught by our police than in NSW. Now that is probably right as we have about 4000 police less than our neighbouring State, the State that catches more violent criminals than we do…The State were it’s people feel much safer walking the streets than they do here in Victoria.
A traffic policeman doing his duties in Dandenong pulls over a car for a routine check is set upon by the occupants of the vehicle and finishes up in hospital. This is disgraceful, outrageous and unacceptable. The thugs have been arrested and charged, but what awaits them? Without a doubt you would have to say a merciful judge, a user friendly court for criminals and a suspended sentence.
Unfortunately, like other countries around the world, we do not have a national crime clock like they do in America for Victims of Crime that tells them that there is;
One murder in America every 31 minutes, a violent crime every 22 seconds, a property crime every 9 seconds, a rape every 2 minutes, an automobile stolen every 19 seconds, a DWI caused death occurs every 40 minutes, domestic violence occurs every 52 seconds and a child abuse case reported every 35 seconds. This does not include the “Hate crimes” that are on the rise.
The threat of Crime hovers over every community in every nation in the world like an ominous dark cloud.
What we do have in Victoria is a Judicial System unlike anything else in the world. It is a system were murderers, rapists, drug dealers, sex offenders and violent perverts are turned out on the street by a judicial system that is supposed to be the watchdog of our freedoms.
Attorney General Rob Hulls came out some time back with the usual fanfare, and I quote. “No more suspended sentences for violent criminals”. unquote.
Yeah yeah Rob heard it all before from you, keep the revolving door going it all goes hand in hand with being a bleeding heart.
Every law abiding Victorian is either a direct or indirect victim of the revolving door criminal justice system that has now reached a direct and indirect cost in excess of millions annually. Criminals with records for violence roam our streets because of The No Truth in Sentencing promoted by our Judicial System. They freely roam our streets because of probation, plea-bargains, leniency and/or due to simple judicial discretion shown by defense lawyer (“lay down with dogs as defense lawyers”) turned judges who eventually turn criminals loose.
The payment of crime compensation is not nearly enough…
We have victims who are suffering and we ask why a payment of $10,000 for example, is the maximum amount that can be given to someone who ends up in a wheel chair…$10,000 is supposed to compensate them for the rest of their life–the victim of a violent cime???
The Govenment and their advisers tell us that this is the best that they can do, yet we see the MP’s having junkets overseas where it is first class all the way and back.
We ask why it is that the perpetrator, on his or her release from jail after five or six years, should not have pay half of any income for the rest of his/hers life directly to their victims…
We are told he or she has served their time…That they have been punished enough.
I find it very hard to believe how any intelligent human being can give an answer like that given that victims of crime have their life taken from them and destroyed forever.