Relating to how to punish young criminals, Thomas T. Thai said "How about sending offenders to the military?"
As a long-ago Navy JAG type, to that suggestion I can only say, "Please, no." I doubt that it's even possible to generate statistics on whether the military has any success rate on "straightening out" such guys. But I can testify from plentiful personal experience that a lot of guys who were in criminal trouble as a civilian and were "sentenced" into the military by civil judges only wound up in criminal trouble in the military. And once the military figured out that an individual was a budding professional criminal, it got rid of them even faster that a civil judge could got them into the military. I always suspected then that the civilian judges who "sentenced" guys into the military knew that the only thing he (it was only "he" then) was doing was exporting the problem. I would hope that our judges now regard the "sentence" to the military as something that only happened in the bad old days. Steve Cross Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
