Japan is an interesting case - a legal system that is extremely harsh and unfair but also extremely inactive, alongside a society with clean streets and organized crime. I think Japan is the way it is largely because of the practice of collective responsibility in modern Japanese society, literally to the point of cleaning the streets. And so even many criminals organize themselves in similar ways as well, and end up containing some of their own impact in the process.
Looking at some of the details about Peckham, it seems to me to be a racial ghetto. Not a big surprise in a political system ruled by the Tories that violence would result in that situation. Not to get all "just overthrow capitalism" on you, but the ideology of the Tories going in the garbage is a necessary step to do any of the other things you might need to make Peckham be Japan. As per my last post, the lowest hanging fruit is to abolish the bullshit crimes, leading to less violent confrontations regarding those crimes.
The full execution of a Sandernista/Corbynite political program is the next major step here - decomodification of food, housing, education, and healthcare the most primary of all. From there you need to use those systems as a lever to mitigate child abuse, which by nature they somewhat are but now you can begin targeting a more malignant class of abuser than those who are using their children as a stress doll. Also, offering therapy to traumatized adults and all people with criminal records served or otherwise should go here. The goal in this is to increase the proportion of healthy people to unhealthy people as fast as possible, which makes everything else easier.
Then do a big gommunism and make the BBC cry by devolving labor ownership to workers outright, and be invaded by the United States then you can start directly increasing the wealth held by people actually in Peckham. Ownership of Peckham will alter the psychological relationship held by the people living there away from "not my fucking problem" towards "yes my fucking problem", and provide the resources for general cleanliness, not solving disputes through violence, etc.
I don't know much about the UK's legal system save that they recently passed a law making it legal for cops to do terrorist attacks and there aren't jury trials, but you should probably do jury trials. Restorative justice methods for petty crime will serve to make both the perpetrator and the victim less sociopathic, and possibly better the sense of social solidarity that all the previous is meant to cultivate.
Racial ghetto's probably too harsh, the demographics of London means you pick any borough outside of the CoL proper and it's majority non-English non-white European, but it is poor + high crime. Most of the people in Peckham have salaries of £16k but the living wage for London is calculated at £22k, and even that's being generous. Peckham's infamous in the UK for having loadsa stabbings, mostly kids stabbing other kids (<16 years old perps and victims).
Funnily enough, Margaret Thatcher argued the same thing about home ownership and stopping the UK from having a full communist revolution. She sold loadsa state housing to people for around £10-20k, and those same flats are worth £650,000 to a few million in London today thanks to speculation magic by money warlocks. Unfortunately that trick can't be played twice because the property prices are such that three generations of a normal London family would not be able to own a house if they did not buy it before the 80s ended.
In addition to the carrot drying up, the stick's also fucked. All the experience police officers got given redundancy packages to "save costs." As a result all the local police stations in the area got shuttered. After the inevitable crime wave that followed (bearing in mind, police officers were recruited from the local population
as members of the community in uniform, not as a police class separate from the population), the gov panicked and tried to mass recruit new peoples. Problem is, no one wanted to become a police officer because police had gone from being a community relations job to some life or death shit. So they started lowering standards, increasing recruitment without offering training or experienced mentors, and recruiting from anyone. So no more local police officers, no more experienced police officers, and police officers outright refused to even investigate or attend to violent crimes if someone was not in the process of being murdered or the property damaged/stolen did not exceed £5k. In one pretty grim and hilarious anecdote I know, one lady I know was shocked to find the police would not come to her house
as her door was being kicked down by 5 men, because she said the men did not have a crowbar on the 999 phonecall.
Regarding the whole state sponsored terrorism thing, what happened was they ran a law through parliament giving criminal informants working for police & MI5 to break the law without getting convicted. This'll probably be more relevant for the much better funded MI5 whose job description inevitably revolves around having their fingers up the bums of many actual terrorist groups. Their argument was if they didn't allow legal crime breaking for criminal informants, then crime groups would just use illegal activity as a filter for determining who was an informant or not. IDK what's the right way to conduct this kind of security work and my instincts say having unaccountable terrorists being blackmailed by security bureaus is a surefire way to create state-controlled disposable assassins in the worst-case scenario so hopefully this law gets shitcanned before it gets passed
Got to say, I've never had any positive experiences with police in my entire life. Yet I appreciated that they were unarmed, and at some point they used to actually leave good impressions on people. I wonder if the ideal of the community police officer with power to arrest & nogun wouldn't be workable with the right resources.
Compulsive killers tend to be made by child abuse synthesizing with adolescent sexuality, in all the research and history I've ever read. It's actually a startlingly clear trend. I think this is solvable with the methods described.
Assholes/narcissists/personality disorders might be solvable - surprise, surprise, most people like this I've ever gotten close to were abused as children as well. Even otherwise, people like this can provably reform their behavior. Even antisocial personality disorder and the like can be reasoned with, and some people like this are highly society-abiding even if they don't "feel" it because it's rational to cooperate. Identify in school, early therapy. Now that I mention it, it might be good to have a psychology class as standard in education, and just teach all children therapeutic methods and common pitfalls.
Terrorists are a political problem and should be solved through political means. This is a global thing and might actually be the most late-stage of all to be solved, depending on what you think about the resolution of the modern political conflict. Nonetheless, people adopt political ideologies that do terrorism to meet unmet needs. Trying to meet needs will filter out most, uh, "casual terrorists". Oh, and don't let the police do terrorism.
I also disagree with involuntary commitment in most circumstances. I'd relegate this to a possible ending of a conviction at trial for cases where mental illness was demonstrably a source for the criminal behavior, and in the event someone has a psychotic episode, though healthcare provision can minimize this.
Maybe. This is where I would have to draw the line; there are some groups like ISIS or Aum Shirynko where people are just unreasonable assholes whose political objectives are exclusive to having a good time. With these groups, there exists no political solution besides capitulation or opposition. I also am not as confident that we can treat or reform everyone; even assuming that the Freudian assumption is correct, which I do not, some people just make the choice to do wrong by their fellow man
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Speaking of spooks and get spooked, the UK are reviewing the death of the MI6 agent who """died by suiciding himself in a bag"""At that time, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt said he was satisfied it was "theoretically possible" Mr Williams could have padlocked the bag from the inside, although "many questions remain unanswered" as to the circumstances of his death.
But he said there was no evidence the MI6 officer had intended to take his own life or his death was connected to his work.
Lmao he was murdered for sure
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