Judge Dredd
I used to enjoy the Judge Dredd comic strip. It was so outrageously OTT law enforcement, with criminals getting their come-uppance in very short order indeed. The movie, starring Sylvester Stallone (what happened to him? Do I care?), was completely dreadful (if you pardon the pun) but no more dreadful that the idea of a one-stop cop shop in a police car. While I don’t have any problem with the idea of reducing court time and costs, this will quickly degenerate into a revenue gathering exercise, just like traffic control.
Processing other crimes in the same manner as traffic will just add those crimes to the long list of ticketing offenses and do absolutely nothing to reduce the incidence of those crimes: for that you simply need increased police presence, not police distracted by writing innumerable tickets.
This idea is just an expansion of the IRD-on-wheels. Worse, it might herald a slow slide into the world of Judge Dredd.
I preferred him in comic book form.
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Sep 9 09 12:04 pm
macdoctor – I still buy 2000AD every week. I have a lot of them now
I think that summararily executing criminals would probably be a good thing in some cases.
Hmm. Yes, I also feel occasionally tempted…
Sep 9 09 5:46 pm
Funny, when I was a kid 2000AD seemed such a long way off in the future. Later I got to know the people who ran the comic (and worked in the same building – one of the editors was briefly a colleague).
Thankfully we don’t live in the post-nuclear dystopia shown in the Judge Dredd stories. On the other hand, the writers never guessed how Britain would be covered in wall-to-wall surveillance cameras, which is every bit as dark.
One problem I see with instant fines is the potential to corrupt police officers. Or am I too cynical?
.-= Bill Bennett´s last blog ..Remember the Milk with added smarts =-.
There is no such thing as too cynical, Bill, only too naive…