Abandon HMAS Dutton Now, page-167

I'm always impressed how much of our discussions on crime centre around how to treat the cancer after we've got it and less so on how to build a culture which manifests in a naturally low rate of crime

why people look to how police forces cope with crimes as opposed to nations that have little crime - defeats me

it's so easy to overlook things - like if one looks at low recidivism rates - well, that's better than looking at how to treat crime by going hard - but, still - it's looking at how much crime is committed by already convicted criminals

that means that one is looking where there have been problems - so, one might say look at Norway -

but one might totally miss looking at Senegal for say the theft rates - it's astonishingly low - in a country that runs on French law and Muslim law

it's all a very complex area - but, mostly people are limited by their intellectual capacity to 'lock em up' - which there are a tome of data which shows that 'lock em up' -- gives monstrously more problems, but it keeps the coppers in work

in Senegal - the coppers in the antitheft department - are probably all on 50 weeks leave a year - the other 2 weeks they just come in to clean and paint the office


the secrets are in the culture and society