1million children on it?
WTF are 1 million kids doing on it? You're treating 1 million kids as criminals, you're lowering the threshold for them to commit further crimes and setting them off on a life of crime with a tainted record? Why?
To prevent crime you need a large gap between how you're treated as an innocent person and how you're treated as a criminal. By treating people as criminals you're reducing that gap. What do they have to lose?
What a hate filled Home Secretary!
And what does that 1.4 million "all other recorded crime" figure contain? Does it include ASBOs does it include all the NuLabour pretend crimes? Does it include cautions etc.?
I don't consider cautions as admissions of guilt despite the claim that a caution requires guilt be admitted.
If they were, then there would be no cases where an officer TRIES for a caution but fails, then fails to pursue the prosecution. It follows for that to happen, the officer must believe they can get a caution accepted where he couldn't get a conviction. So the threshold for a caution must be LOWER than that for a conviction and you can't treat a caution as like for like guilt as though it had gone to court and been prosecuted.
See the case of the Wifi 'theft' the other week, where an officer tried for a caution by a kid had connected to next doors Wifi, but when that was refused he failed to pursue a conviction. He can't have it both ways, either
Also, can a child be given a caution? I read there that the PARENT rejected the caution, but then if the parent ACCEPTED the caution, it's the parent admitting guilt on behalf of the child. How is that possible. How can a person accept guilt for someone else???
We don't accept children can make the decisions as adults, which is why we don't let them make lots of decisions, including the right to vote. Yet someone else can give them a criminal record?
To me, the way crime is handled in the UK with children is just a function of a hateful old bitter bitch who sits in the Home Office with zero tolerance for others.
She's the problem here, her and her hate filled mind.