Excellent move to trap criminals
Dear Editor:The recent move to increase the list of offences that would apply to “one strike and you’re out” policy is definitely a step in the right direction.
Reviewing the list, I was shocked that someone committing an offence like kidnapping for ransom, robbery, manslaughter, incest and other grievous offences had the opportunity to receive bail and be out on the streets to terrorize other victims. Further, for this list of crimes, they had the opportunity to do it twice before they were denied bail.
We should be doing all to protect the vulnerable members of society from these predators, so increasing this list to include these crimes and others is indeed a heartening move. What is needed now is for the police to increase their conviction rate for these crimes, and better policing techniques would go a long way to achieving this. We need to get these criminals off the street, so any move to remove them is definitely supported.
Ricardo Jimenez
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