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- Vigilante Justice
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- You don't hear about vigilantes much anymore. When you do,
- you get to read a full page about how the police are trying to track
- down the rogue figure, and stop him from taking the law into his own
- hands. Even in cases where the vigilante is more effecient, and does
- the job right, he is always tracked down, and his capture is put
- in front of the criminals that he is removing from society.
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- When you think about it, and read about past cases, you will
- find that the ability to punish criminals without having to deal
- with laws, paperwork, or office procedures, a law keeper becomes much
- more efficient in his work. When I say 'law keeper', that means
- either the legitimate police, or a vigalante. Instead of having a
- single person working on a case, gathering evidence for a trial, filling
- out paperwork, etc, he has the ability to go straight to the criminal
- and act as the judge, jury, and executioner.
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- The big debate comes in whether or not the average citizen
- should have or take that ability. Police officers go through years of
- training to do what they do, while a vigilante may skip that, purchase
- a handgun, and kill someone he catches doing wrong. What gives that
- person the right? Nothing. That is why police worry more about catching
- the vigilante and forgetting about the real criminals.
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- Given today's society and the direction it is heading, you have
- to wonder if it is such a bad idea. Not so much the idea of a vigilante,
- but the ability to skip through the paperwork and procedures, and just
- worry about catching the bad guys. The only movie I know that implements
- this idea is _Judge Dredd_ (which wasn't that good), but showed how that
- kind of a system would work, and the potential of it. If a single police
- officer has the ability to track, capture, judge, and execute, the law
- enforcers become much more powerful, and much more deadly.
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- For argument's sake, lets say the police had that power, the
- primary concern becomes if the officer will abuse that power. Will s/he?
- Yes. How do I know? A decent percentage abuse the power they are given
- right now. What is to stop them from abusing the power if we give them
- more? Stiffer punishment. Since the officer would have the ability to
- enforce stiffer penalties, s/he would be subject to the same stiffer
- set of laws. No more small fines for parking illegally, after the third
- or fourth, they impound your car for a month. After the fifth or sixth time,
- they impound it for three months.
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- In this scenario, every crime would have a stiffer punishment
- to help deter crime. Once people realized that they had no means of getting
- out of the crime via common methods (messed up paperwork, officer not
- showing, etc), they will be a little more careful of which crimes they
- break.
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- The only way to ensure purity among the officers would be to
- institute new measures of tracking them. Bullets issued to the officers
- would be ID'd in such a way that any recovered bullet could be tracked
- back to the gun that shot it. More cameras on the police transportation
- along with a microphone on the officer would help ensure honest judgements.
- The recorded material from camera and microphone would be broadcast
- directly back to internal affairs who would monitor the officers.
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- If a citizen ever felt wrongly convicted or punished for a crime,
- they could put a petition in at Internal Affairs, and a full investigation
- would ensue. The system would be very difficult to implement, but once in
- place would be a very effective deterent. The idea of running into a bad
- cop alone would deter a lot of the criminals. Knowing you could be without
- your car for three months would deter illegal parking.
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- So vigilante justice is not the answer, and a total police state
- isn't the answer. Something in between, but monitored strictly is the only
- way it could happen. I personally don't think it could work, but it is
- an intriguing idea. Parts of it would be a great value to society, while
- other parts of this plan would put us worse off as far as the government
- monitoring our lives.
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- Who knows.. maybe that is where it will go in the future.. when
- we have no say over the matter.
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