AirPolice, I understand where you are coming from, and in many ways I too despair at the weak sentencing policies, that have resulted in a situation where crime is encouraged to foster. But there is a deeper picture to bear in mind, if we keep stopping and arresting those blighters that were damaging that Volvo, sooner or later they will get the message or get locked up. The only way of stemming the current crime wave, especially Violent crime, is to increase the arrest and detection rate! The Criminal has cottoned on to the fact that more than ever before, he now has an open Goal, - today there is almost nothing and no-one to stop him, - the criminal currently has the freedom to operate with very little chance of being caught That simply has to change and change quickly.
This situation was brought about by Politicians who thought that as crime was going down a few years ago, they could remove most of the Policing that had achieved that, and that the Criminal would not notice that there was no policing any more!
TF