[Molon Labbie]

This is the vicious cycle we are in and it will never stop.

Criminal commits crime

Cops catches criminal

Prosecutor files charges

Defense Attorney threatens extended trial unless PA plays ball .

Judge agrees to plea bargain that allows criminal back onto the the street.

PA clears a case among hundreds more on his/her desk

Defense attorney has client for life.

Judge can now say he/she administered justice(often social justice)

Victim loses faith in system

Cops wonders WTF is going on and prepares to catch another criminal

NO MORE leniency, no more sliding scales, no more double secret probation, no more multiple Suspended Imposition of Sentence, put the violent ones in prison until they are too old to walk. The crime rate WILL go down.

[arthurus]

The crime rate has been going steadily down as two other rates have risen i.e. incarceration and gun ownership. The left decries the high rates of imprisonment because crime rates have declined and say that decline justifies putting fewer miscreants in prison. Actually the left fears a diminution in crime rates because that reduces the ostensible justification for leftism.

[Cobra64]

Yup. Prison should be solitary confinement. No light. Dead silence. One year minimum.