01-05-2009, 06:19 AM
Thanks Tom, I think it's a not so whacky idea and would be cost effective and immediately implementable. It is important as a deterrent to make a life of crime as full of paranoia and fear as one of a honest citizen. If it gets about that any random parked car may be taking picture of you anywhere any time it will modify some behavior for certain.
A constructive point worth discussing is the relative value of deterrents rather than punishments. It is vastly more effective to make crimes difficult to commit, or not worth committing, than to control crime by threat of incarceration. For many, especially an a scenario of overcrowded jails and revolving door sentences, a trip to jail is no punishment whatsoever, and no longer a deterrent either. I don't know how crowded jails are locally if it is anything as is typical it's pretty glutted. The juvenile system is probably worse yet. Of course deterrents don't apply to random tweaker issues at all. . .or perhaps other issues here discussed.
A constructive point worth discussing is the relative value of deterrents rather than punishments. It is vastly more effective to make crimes difficult to commit, or not worth committing, than to control crime by threat of incarceration. For many, especially an a scenario of overcrowded jails and revolving door sentences, a trip to jail is no punishment whatsoever, and no longer a deterrent either. I don't know how crowded jails are locally if it is anything as is typical it's pretty glutted. The juvenile system is probably worse yet. Of course deterrents don't apply to random tweaker issues at all. . .or perhaps other issues here discussed.