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The legal system in criminal cases has always seemed to me to be screwy.
If you rob a bank or defraud a company you are more likely to get a long jail term than for rape, assault, paedophilia or murder, Something wrong when that happens.
I have the greatest admiration for all our emergency services people, police, fire and ambos. I would not do their job for quids, and I agree they need all our support. Imagine what the civil 'climate' would be like without them!
To my eye, the courts rarely give them the backup they need and deserve to enforce the law, the low and inappropriate sentencing being a case in point. The case outlined here is an glaring example. A cop trying to do his job in the best way he knows how is brutally and unjustifiably attacked by drunken louts and permanenelt injured, and they get OFF! Give me a break.
And one of the other cops gave CPR to one of these hoons and saved his life during the incident. Lord knows what the judge was thinking, if he was thinking at all.
There was a recent one in NSW where a man climbed into a window and sexually assaulted a 5 yr old girl and at the recent trial the sentence was 2 years suspended sentence! Now I realise we get a very slanted view from the media, but if they are going to release the crime and sentrnce data, they need to tell us WHY/HOW any judge came up with what seems like such a patently unjust sentence.
I don't know the answer to this very vexing and long standing problem, but something needs to be done to standardise the criminal justice system a bit more.
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