Rather than bow to renewed pressure for “tough on crime” policies, Mark Carney should take heed of their failures and continue down the path of reform.
Okay, Mr. Sahak, I get that you don't like mandatory minimum sentences. Your examples certainly provide bases for discussion of the lack of utility of MMPs.
What I would like to hear from you, Sir, is under what conditions do you think that MMPs might have some reasonable utility.
I apologize if this insults you but I simply reject the idea that there is no possibility of an example that an MMP might be useful, ever. Put differently, any sentence is a tool. Perhaps that tool is to punish; perhaps it is to protect the public from someone violent; perhaps it is to provide evidence of public denunciation of of the behavior for which a sentence is being levied; I quite accept that there are many other potential reasons for picking a particular sentence. But, in all cases a sentence is selected for a reason and I simply do not accept that there is no possibility that an MMP could not provide a useful possibility somehow, someway, somewhere.
So, where is that possibility of utility of an MMP?
Okay, Mr. Sahak, I get that you don't like mandatory minimum sentences. Your examples certainly provide bases for discussion of the lack of utility of MMPs.
What I would like to hear from you, Sir, is under what conditions do you think that MMPs might have some reasonable utility.
I apologize if this insults you but I simply reject the idea that there is no possibility of an example that an MMP might be useful, ever. Put differently, any sentence is a tool. Perhaps that tool is to punish; perhaps it is to protect the public from someone violent; perhaps it is to provide evidence of public denunciation of of the behavior for which a sentence is being levied; I quite accept that there are many other potential reasons for picking a particular sentence. But, in all cases a sentence is selected for a reason and I simply do not accept that there is no possibility that an MMP could not provide a useful possibility somehow, someway, somewhere.
So, where is that possibility of utility of an MMP?