Swift, Certain, and Fair

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Some of the primary reasons crime has surged, and and
we're familiar with some of it. The pullback of policing
in the wake of Ferguson George Floyd Right to defund
the police idiocy. The cops are not getting support from UH,
their their city councils and their mayors or whatever. Every
cop constantly under scrutiny. Um. I mean, there are a

(00:22):
bunch of things that factor into the rise and crime.
The theory that quotes sift, swift, certain and fair consequences
deter crimes is credited to the late criminologist Mark Climbing.
The idea is that it's the speed of repercussions rather
than their severity, that matters most. I want to think
about that from child for a child rearing standpoint. So
it's the speed of the repercussions for your actions more

(00:45):
important than the severity of the punishment. That's interesting. There
was a case in UH in New York. This guy
was arrested for the eighteenth time for felony auto theft
in a fifteen month period the same So that's more
than once a month. And as any cop can tell you,
any stop, especially any arrest, can turn violent and ugly

(01:05):
and deadly. And so after you see the guy you
know for the sixteenth time turned loose, are you gonna
risk a dangerous encounter with him when you know there's
no courts being held, he's not gonna be tried, he's
not gonna go to jail, he's just gonna be out
again tomorrow. So it had this outward ripple effect, like
in all directions, where everybody's like, what's the point of
doing my job? This is stupid, that's horrible. So, whether

(01:28):
you're a court system, a teacher, or a parent, were
those three words again for the punishment? They need to
be swift, swift, certain, and fair.