by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 14, 2015 | Crime
To be soft on crime is to betray the law-abiding citizen. And to make excuses for the criminal is to offer incentives to dishonesty and violence. Crime flourishes in a culture of excuses … Crime is not a sickness to be cured—it’s a temptation to be resisted, a threat...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 14, 2015 | Crime
Combining DNA profiles with the Individuals Register would save lives by allowing serial killers and rapists to be caught after their first crime. The people of California took a step in the right direction with Proposition 69, which requires the DNA sampling of all...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 14, 2015 | Crime
Cameras are already being used to identify and log every vehicle on the road. This technology can be enhanced by placing multiple radio frequency tags carrying the vehicle serial number on multiple parts including the chassis. Stolen cars, cars whose license plates...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 14, 2015 | Crime
The fact remains that the most direct way to act against crime is to make life as difficult as possible for the potential and actual criminal. This cannot be done cheaply. Increasing the number of police officers on patrol, providing the most up-to-date technology to...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 14, 2015 | Crime
The prohibition on ‘cruel and unusual punishments’ found in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is lifted word for word from the 1689 English Bill of Rights. Monarchs of the Dark Ages, in order to maintain their despotic power, had been known to burn their...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 14, 2015 | Crime
Every man in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compensate, by the example of the punishment that attends it from every body, and also to secure men from the attempts of a...
