Hiring more cops
bolstering police forces reduce crime
robberies
burglaries
theft
jurisdictions
negate
weed out bad cops
negligent officers
The case for hiring more police officers
earn plaudits from
prison sentences
violent offenders
an idea espoused by
multifaceted problem
incarceration
victims of crime
one grievance Africans have with the criminal justice systems
neighborhoods are underpoliced
impeccable
mobilize extra officers
crooks
with more officers around, fewer people commit crimes
officers patrolling the streets
convicts
law enforcement
a sharp trade-off between crime reduction and civil rights
cops on the beat
stop and frisk tactics were curtailed
being assigned to a 13-hour shift
reform
racial disparities
the problem of police misconduct
de rigueur for
members of state legislature
incurring the wrath of police officers
perennial
reform does not mean indifference to crime
- In modern society, the right to use force is restricted to the state, and citizens are not expected to take the law into their own hands.
- perpetrators of murder must be punished
- beyond the pale
- Their value system , that is full of hatred and xenophobia , should be denounced as beyond the pale of democracy
- maintaining an uneasy silence on the gruesome act
- Human rights reside in every human being, they are not conferred by the state
- Law enforcement agencies should be like a watchdog of the government, not a lapdog
- execution
- disciplinary powers in prisons
- solitary confinement is defined by many as cruel , inhuman and degrading treatment or torture.
- imprisonment
- inmates
- prisoners are deprived of basic communication to the outside world through phone call to family.
Capital Punishment
utilitarian
forfeited their own right to life
retribution
indignation
victim
law-abiding citizens
legitimize
condemned person
abolish
treason
crimes against humanity
crimes against women
deterrent effect
imprisonment
sanction of life
single out
discriminatory
arbitrary
protracted
condemned to death
jurisdiction
In South Africa , capital punishment was outlawed in 1995
a capital offense
countries impose death penalty for various reasons
embezzlement of public funds
ratify the convention
mentally impaired
a UN injunction against capital punishment
exonerate
moratoriums on death penalty
commuting the death sentence
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