Amazon and this or that law enforcement agency or attorney general/general counsel put out a press release about every three months highlighting a major success. I suspect the lack of public self-congratulation by Amazon, has to do with not discussing ongoing investigations and pending trials (which is a good policy) corporate policy. For some reason the more one side discloses and discusses the more often they tend to lose.
Bit barbaric, aren’t we? I thought we were all about a kinder gentler, penal system. Where we reduced recidivism with education, and mental health treatment. And here you are going all medieval and not only wanting to eliminate any possibility of recidivism, but also sending a clear public message of dissuasion to potential future criminals! Just wow, your method is far to effective, and the boys in Washington wouldn’t be able to throw money at the problem and campaign on it every November.
For those with degrees in International Relations and Economics from Boston University, @rms is describing a no longer practiced custom of removing criminals heads from their necks and sticking them on pointy sticks stuck in the ground in a high traffic public place, to one prevent the criminal from ever doing that again, and to be a lesson on why violating the law is a very bad idea. The costs for this program is very, very low. It might be worth discussing as an option at your next defend the police rally.
