The response of swift and sure punishment may well be the greatest prevention and the one missing ingredient that has created a runaway criminal culture in America. There are eight major root causes of crime in our society-just like the tree that spreads it's roots in the ground. We can continue to cut off the limbs but that will have no effect upon the roots. We do not have that message going out to the criminal community from the judicial system today. There is no other profession that is guaranteed that type of success.
Crime does pay and criminals know that.
There is no better way to show how punishment is a deterrent to crime than to compare the American revolving door justice system with another criminal justice system that meets out swift and sure punishment. In recent years we have been able to clearly compare two systems of justice. One of our graffiti criminals by name of Michael Fay got loose in Singapore and practiced his criminal art on a dozen or so automobiles and telephone booths. The old American lawyer ploy of pleading his client not responsible did not work in Singapore. The American criminal justice system today has evolved into an award winning performance of lawyer fraud that attempts to show that the offender is really the victim.