Most people where I live don't hail black cabs because Asians have taken over the work almost entirely and the cabs are expensive, sometimes smelly, and often driven by illegals and people who still try to overcharge and blather over mobiles in foreign languages. That our governments dump mad and criminal people amongst us is clear already. What we need to do is ensure this dumping is shared consistently by all members and classes of society. It seems clear that judges, doctors and other worthies generally live a long way from their decisions. We should move them next door.
We have a rehabilitation of offenders act here. I broadly agree people should be able to wipe the slate clean. Yet psychopaths are three times more likely to convince parole boards they should be released than normal criminals, and it's clear police and other agencies don't keep proper records (and yet still abuse the freedom of information and data protection acts) and that recidivism rates are very high. It would seem Lee's paranoid-schizoid cabbie would normally be prevented by his conviction being impossible to 'spend' from getting a licence. I also know decent people being turned down because of minor records long ago. We should reform the rehabilitation of offenders act, ensure privacy for those being checked (personnel departments should not know details other than yes or no from the cops after the applicant has had a chance to query mistakes) and checks should only be made for genuinely relevant offences (not ones picked up in political protesting for instance), with this being expanded in the case of juveniles to include signs of sexual predation (this is currently written off at 18). Currently, daft minor dross like a shoplifting conviction at 19 is retained (a third of men have some kind of minor conviction by 30), whilst all kinds of relevant serious stuff is not retained or collated properly - such as matters that would have caught the real killer of Lesley Molseed and prevented the Soham killings. I might well prefer to travel with a former killer who has gone through proper treatment than many of the people in our society judged not to be a menace who get no treatment and are so loony they think they don't need any. On 11 Sep, 22:08, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just hung on the "Killed His Wife" part, but knowing how > compassionate you are towards murderers, Lee, I can understand your > tendentious view. > > I'm sure that Black cab drivers have a legitimate complaint in that > many people will undoubtedly "avoid" hailing a cab with a black driver > as precautionary measure to being killed by a relapse of paranoid > schizophrenia. > > But of course your more worried about the schizoid murderer than the > black cab drivers. > > On Sep 11, 7:25 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yesterday on our local London news I hear that thousands of black cab > > drivers intend to take to the streets to express their feelings of > > anger over a convicted murderer being given licence to take 'the > > knowledge' reqiured to allow him to become a black cab driver. > > > The man is a paraniod scizophrenic who killed his wife and has been > > held for 9 years before being given a clean bill of health and has > > since been released. > > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8233750.stm > > > Now I have personal experiance with scizophrenia, no not me but a very > > good friend of mine, and I know that with the proper medicain those > > who suffer form this illness can and do live more or less ordinary > > lives. > > > You all know me by now so it should come as no suppries to learn that > > I feel sorta disgusted by the proposed actions of our cabbies. > > > There is in this country a huge stigma attached to mental health and a > > lack of understanding of the effects it can have on those who suffer > > and their families, I wish it was not so as it seems simple to me, you > > would not protest against a man who had say broken a hand and wished > > to become a cabbie. > > > It doesn't really supprise me though, I figure that not everybody has > > encountred those who sufffer. > > > So what do you think? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
