COULD angry suburban men on the internet hold the key to tackling crime? Here retired accountant Norman Steele outlines his no-nonsense measures.
Arm the police
And not just with guns. The modern bobby on the beat should also have grenades to take out groups of criminals and a garroting wire for ‘silent kills’.
Stiffer sentences
The minimum sentence should be 50 years. This would create a large prison population but I would solve that problem by regularly putting criminals into a giant blender, providing both a powerful deterrent and a free source of prison food.
Some might say this idea is ‘sadistic’ or ‘mental’, but when I explained it at length to my wife last night she enthusiastically responded “Yes, dear” several times.
Give police the powers they have in films
If the police need to dangle someone off a tall building to extract a confession, so be it. They should also be well-versed in passages from the Bible and signs of the zodiac to help them catch serial killers.
Introduce torture in prisons
Prisons are basically a holiday camp, so inmates should spend three hours a day being tortured on the rack or with electrodes. Only then would they be allowed to return to their Playstations.
Police tigers
Modern criminals with guns are unlikely to fear a puny Alsatian, so dog units should be upgraded to tigers. River police would be issued with trained crocodiles. It’s just common sense.
On-the-spot shootings
If someone breaks the law, shoot them there and then. No liberal judges or wily lawyers, just a bullet in the brain. (Obviously this does not apply to retired persons who may have accidentally exceeded the speed limit.)
