{"id":29917,"date":"2017-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-crime-policy-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-know-about\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T00:00:00","slug":"the-crime-policy-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/the-crime-policy-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The crime policy the government DOES NOT want you to know about"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SA Police are being ordered to \u201ccatch and release\u201d petty criminals in a policy officers have been told not to talk about, says Leon Byner.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe state government has gone to a lot of trouble to hide a new law and order policy that, from international experience, puts more recidivist criminals on the street,\u201d Leon said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called catch and release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/314017525&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Leon said the purpose was to turn \u201cnon-violent felonies into misdemeanours, thus incarcerating fewer prisoners because there\u2019s too little room\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He reported the results when the policy was tried in California:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Property crimes up 30 per cent.<\/li>\n<li>Auto thefts up 21 per cent.<\/li>\n<li>Larceny from vehicles up 30 per cent.<\/li>\n<li>Garage burglaries up 33 per cent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/ccared-city-shop-owner-terrorised-by-wild-youths\"><strong>Leon said recent reports of youths terrorising shopkeepers in Rundle Mall<\/strong><\/a> was \u201cthe kind of category perfect for catch and release &#8212; little paperwork, no detention and no court intervention\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wait until a petty punk become a serious thug, then we\u2019ll deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Leon, the policy is included in the Police Gazette &#8212; \u201cwith a note not to discuss this with anybody, unless they ask\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the media asked, and there was a ducking and weaving display of the first order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frank Pangallo, who revealed the practice in a story on Today Tonight, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt came about because I spoke to policeman on the beat who are really frustrated at this policy. We\u2019ve dubbed it catch and release, but its real name is adult cautioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said petty criminals were getting \u201ca slap on the wrist and allowed to go\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is telling me that really our justice system is broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Attorney General John Rau said crimes punishable by imprisonment were excluded from the policy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about very minor matters\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t be violent offences, it can\u2019t be sexual offences, it can\u2019t be offences to do with organised crime, it can\u2019t be infringements of bail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a whole list of things it can\u2019t be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about essentially public order offences.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/businessman-threatens-to-storm-all-of-jay-weatherill-s-press-conferences\"><strong>BUSINESSMAN THREATENS TO LIVE STREAM HIMSELF STORMING WEATHERILL PRESS CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-koch-has-pulled-off-the-impossible\"><strong>DAVID KOCH HAS PULLED OFF THE IMPOSSIBLE!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA Police are being ordered to \u201ccatch and release\u201d petty criminals in a policy officers have been told not to talk about, says Leon Byner. \u201cThe state government has gone to a lot of trouble to hide a new law and order policy that, from international experience, puts more recidivist criminals on the street,\u201d Leon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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