Criminal homicides in Singapore in 2007 produce an interesting statistic - there were just EIGHT!This would equate to some 160 homicides annually in the UK where the actual figure for our level of population is much more than four times greater than that.
Hmm. I wonder why there is a difference?
Okay - in Singapore, you kill - you hang. Simples! It is rather difficult to see how the do-gooding element can get around this small point, isn't it?
It has the added benefit that numbers being so tiny, almost all murders are solved. (It was 100% in 2007!)
Wouldn't it be nice to cut our own murder rate by about TWO A DAY from where we are at the moment?
(Incidentally, the execution of traffickers has reduced the Singaporean drug problems to just above negligible.)
Few drug problems = very small crime rate.
Zero tolerance works if allowed to, without the apoplectic outbursts of groups like Amnesty International and their ilk having unwarranted influence.
They ooze mindless sympathy but have little interest in justice as a broader concept.
Do remember that in the UK and EU, you are freely permitted by Law to kill somebody in the full knowledge that your own life may never come under any threat.
Photo: Changi Jail.
