CRIME: DRUG PUSHERS GOT OFF EASY

Dear Editor,

My sympathies are totally with Vancouver policemen who are sentenced
by the courts for roughing up drug pushers. In Singapore the pushers
probably would have been executed!

No doubt the policemen go too far, but let's see where the real guilt
lies. It lies squarely on the wimpy judges and the court system.

We see lots of law and very little justice in many cases: lots of talk
and money in lawyers pockets; cases which should be settled in hours
get dragged out for weeks, and often the innocent get whacked while
the guilty go free to commit a crime again.

Until we make judges accountable for their outrageous decisions,
things will never change.

Police officers are only reacting to the frustration that they
feel.

All the policemen should keep their jobs, and should not have a
criminal record.

Before people start taking the law into their own hands, let's make
our justice system work.

David J. Standcumbe

Walnut Grove