This is an unfair approach. Murder a Police Officer or anyone for that matter & it should be life. Kill a cop or some other low life & a different approach is needed. Sadly, there are more cops than Police Officers nowadays.

Well:) what a question. As I see, the good are sometimes the bad...and the bad are doing more good, than truth will allow. This human nature thing is really confusing me.

Question! What would you do with a diseased limb?

I think Monday will be a fresh new day:)

Who knows, maybe bigger things will transpire.

Australia!

Thank goodness its an island.

LEAP

Belly:

...True, you did not actually say that. I was reading between the lines of your posts and drawing my own literal conclusions. But here we go again, A Policeman shot at point blank range and in the face during a robbery on the gold coast last night. Mandatory sentencing will not deter this type of spontaneous crime: Twenty five year jail terms are sufficient I believe

Diver Dan,
25 years sufficient for a life ? What about the victim's family ? They get life too but theirs is a lot longer than 25 years in many cases. Killing a mongrel human should be exonerated not punished. Murdering is a totally different scenario because it is plain malice. Killing can be accidental, self-defence or due to psychological torture. Most killings are brought on by the nasty mentality of the aggressor not the victim of the aggression.
The real problem here is that in order not to understand you need to be highly educated.

Individual:

…Or is it the fact that the highly educated have control of the outcomes. But I agree. And that exactly is the case in question. The Judiciary have the role to judge the situation; the reason why mandatory sentencing is draconian. What mandatory sentencing does is reduces the role of a judge to that of a rubber stamp.

…It is also a truism which has been attested to me on numerous occasions by lawyers, Jails are half full with the innocent. That is another way to highlight the point you make. Judges, by and large, are not stupid. They are very capable at seeing the truth of a situation, and must be allowed to judge accordingly

Diver Dan,
I'm not suggesting that Judges are stupid although some of their decisions make them look that way. I also don't mean to say that an uneducated person is stupid ether. What I am saying is that many highly educated people are so way out of touch that they make stupid decisions, again judges & magistrates are serious offenders in decision making. I had a personal experience where the decision of a magistrate was so blatantly wrong that, had it been more serious I could very well have been tempted to do something which would have made me a criminal. Imagine becoming a criminal because of a stupid magistrate. I'm sure there are many people out there who fall into this category. What the authorities need to wake up to is that people are reaching saturation stage with incompetent public servants & listening to some victims it is clear that these authorities are creating time bombs.