Originally Posted by
Sunfish
Kaz:
Depends on who you define as "customers". My relatives in the justice profession have very mixed views and are frustrated by the system. One applies to the court to get someone locked up and finds him back on the street selling drugs Two days later.
...And don't start me on the Sudanese....
Fortunately, our democratic system of Government is one Based on the separation of powers doctrine and our police don't get to set punishments.
It's the role of enforcement authorities to charge and prosecute offences; the role of the judiciary to sentence the offenders to punishment according to law; and the role of the administrative n to carry the punishment out.
It's the parliament that makes the laws and, again, our democracy was built on fundamental tights established in the Magna Carta which include a presumption of innocence.
Sometimes, some of the players and the Murdock press forget this.
Kaz