O/T When the police go away, crime goes away.

[ragingpup]

Wow, that’s amazingly naive.

How so? I believe we have the highest prison population in Europe. Its hugely expensive and most studies of punitive justice systems, unless embedded in a ruthless totalitarian system, show it simply doesn't work. Whereas Glasgow's initiative seemed to have quite a positive impact.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.t...g-young-people

Happy for rationale argument against this of course but "amazingly naive" seems quite lazy. Why do you think that?

[Brin]

How so? I believe we have the highest prison population in Europe. Its hugely expensive and most studies of punitive justice systems, unless embedded in a ruthless totalitarian system, show it simply doesn't work. Whereas Glasgow's initiative seemed to have quite a positive impact.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.t...g-young-people

Happy for rationale argument against this of course but "amazingly naive" seems quite lazy. Why do you think that?

RP, apologies for joining the debate on your post but do you or does anyone have stats to say what % from which countries populate our prisons? I understand that there has been a large spike from the European contingent aka the Polish, Albanian and east European countries.