Silent Crime: Leeds locals reflect on the criminal justice system

National World - LocalTV

How does the current state of the criminal justice system make you feel about safety and justice in our community? Do you think it's doing as intended to protect those who need it most?

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00:00I've heard mostly about prisons letting rapists and convicted criminals go early

00:06to make space in prisons which I don't particularly agree with because I feel

00:10like there should be more space made in prisons for those criminals essentially making more

00:16prisons but at the same time we don't actually have that much space so it's a bit of a hard issue.

00:20I feel like they're just not focusing enough on people who are like predators and people

00:26are going for minors like it's something I hear like almost every day at least three times

00:31and absolutely no one's being done about it. I think there's quite a bit of issues with sort

00:35of the stop and search powers and sort of the ambiguity within sort of what is a reasonable

00:40suspicion I think there could be some more work done into sort of outlining what actually is

00:47reasonable. I just say that everyone deserves a chance whether you know you you've messed up

00:52or you've done something major obviously things are bigger than bigger than the others but

00:56everyone deserves a chance you know everyone can turn their life around.

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