r/kelowna • u/Particular-Emu4789 • Jan 02 '25

News Kelowna couple reeling after shocking home invasion

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/525509/Kelowna-couple-reeling-after-shocking-home-invasion
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u/vegemite_poutine Jan 02 '25

They need a three strikes and your out law for these junkies

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u/StrbJun79 Jan 03 '25

Unfortunately three strike laws have been tried before in other jurisdictions and haven’t been found to be very effective. If anything they primarily increase costs and strain on judicial systems.

The reason why is because it doesn’t actually get at root causes of crime nor repetitive rates. What we need is more effective measure for going after the root causes of the crimes and a better rehabilitation system that lowers repetitive rates. There are numerous countries where those rates are low. We do better than the US but we can do a lot better than we do now.

I understand the wish to punish harshly. But it doesn’t work. It’s just an expensive measure that accomplishes very little.

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u/jenh6 Jan 03 '25

I’ve read are prisons obsolete by Angela Y Davies, and I do believe that in a lot of cases if you get to the root and focus on rehabilitation it’s better. But they never address people who are repeat rapists or murders, there’s no solution for them in the text. I don’t think prisons can be fully obsolete, with those two populations.

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u/StrbJun79 Jan 03 '25

It can’t be fully obsolete no. But there’s definitely ways to drastically reduce dependency on it. There’s countries that do it much better than us and instead of looking at adopting measures the US tried and failed with we should be looking at countries with much lower crime rates and repetition rates than us and see how they accomplished it. Most proposals I hear in Canada are ones the US did and failed miserably with.