November 21, 2009
Published: 28 Aug 09 15:51 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/21752/20090828/
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Police in Skåne in southern Sweden will shortly begin publishing pictures of criminal suspects on the police website, a practice that may soon be adopted all over the country.
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So we'll be able to see the faces of those mysterious "youths", we so much read about.
Looking forward...
One could only wish.
There's nothing quite as useless as a video from a security camera with the face blurred out.
Kind of defeats the purpose, doesnt it?
What next? music without sound or just the lyrics scrolling past? politicians without lies? oops!
Perhaps the original intent of this site will return and sanity will once again serve both the native Swedes and those productive and retired ex-pats who chose to come to Sweden and who willingly and happily absorbed the Swedish culture.
Sweden and the native Swedes are as happy as the ex-pats that they did so.
And we all know how well that works to reduce crime in the USA (& Canada) where perpatrators have been known to broadcast videos of themselves in the act! Good luck.
Publishing photos of criminals leads to lots of arrests here in Canada. That TV show "America's Most Wanted" has brought in lots of arrests as an example. J
Academics like Sarnecki need to spend some time outside of the ivory tower and more time living in the real world.
Professor has to be at least 150 years old to think this way!!!
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/slideshows/bookings/
"Suspect" is someone who has enough evidence that can be linked to a crime, but still being innocent, since he/she has not been condemned to prison.
The only ones needed to be posted are people who scape from prison and ultra hard evidence suspects required for criminal investigation, otherwise it can obstruct justice and it will make guilty people do high quality mess.
As I understand this, the authorities will ONLY be showing images of suspects that they cannot identify. They will NOT be naming names! I see NO problem with asking the public to help identify someone in a picture!
In America, it goes SO MUCH farther than just showing a picture and asking the public to identify the individual. In the US, claiming First Amendment rights, and the right of the PUBLIC to know, they publish everything about a suspect! The papers go out of their way to get as much dirt on a suspect so the public will know just how bad this person is!
The end effect is that your publicity has ALREADY proven you guilty LONG before you even get to court!
I like the way Sweden keeps the names out of the public view until the person is found guilty!