TheGreatZacsby wrote: ↑Mon 12 Jun 2023 7:39pm
SAINT-LEE wrote: ↑Mon 12 Jun 2023 6:26pm
I've heard from a family friend of a codefendant in this case...we worked in WA together & he's a solid bloke...he says the Tigers were contacted by WA police last week of May to advise a player would be possibly extradited if an appearance to give a statement with detectives could not be arranged in 21 days.
As the club would travel to Perth they arranged for said player to stay in town after the game.
He says further on evidence.. the police have pinged the mobile he was using at the Perth Exchange exactly when robbery occurred, also have him on camera wearing a wig renting a vehicle using false identification, that codefendants used to flee the state.
One of the other codefendants ( already in custody on another matter) has been "assisting police with their investigation" leading to this arrest by giving police his mobile phone which allegedly had many incriminating texts.
My mates call...99.99% all the lads are guilty of burgularly, Pickett the lesser of offenses. With his aggravatted burg previous... so slim a chance to escape custodial sentence.
It is sad. I hate it whenever anyone choses to let the messed up life they HAD stay alive instead of burying it forever. Someone lost a lot of money, regardless that its a business. Families are affected, theres children. Its sad because prison doesnt work. Facts.
The Great Review ( docs of 73 prison studies) show 9% of convicts are postively impacted by prison and do not reoffend. 68% commit more serious crimes than previous within 3 months of release. 23% reoffend crimes on similar level.
Interesting.
In terms of the prison. What else are the police to do with the crooks? Send them to kindergarten?
I agree that some people need custodial sentences.
But there's much better ways to get outcomes.
The tricky part is the cost.
- People want blood ( families & victims of murder, rape, violent crimes, callous theft & fraud etc etc). The hunger for revenge can drive a person across the planet searching.
A key purpose of prison is to ensure the offender is adequately punished.
- The funds needed to set up genuine recovery & corrections is phenomenal...astronomical.
- The proven programs that bring change are not acceptable by the lenient leaning crowds. Change programs involve facing victims & families, mandatory counseling, hard labour 6 hours a day, eduction programs ( literacy, year 12, tafe, university, apprenticeships...because 95% of offender who learned trades NEVER reoffended) etc
- The very real challenge of knowing who IS capable & willing of restoration & who needs to go to prison.
Some people SHOULD not get opportunities to live free. Many need help or they will steal the funds from your pocket via prison funding. It costs roughly $5 billion per year to house convicts..you think their might be incentive to lock up people there? Add executive, judicial and policing, all costs are estimated to be 25 billion a year.
All I'm saying is just dust in the wind. It will not happen. The human desire to see offenders punished allows politicians to line their pockets by taking your cash.
and despise the Pies, the Blues, and the Injectors.
