How serious is a buying offense? Yahoo readers call for “zero tolerance”

The Yahoo UK week survey allows you to vote and indicate the power to feel on one of the hot topics of the week. After closing the survey, we will publish and analyze the results every Friday, giving readers the chance to see how polarizing it has become a topic and if their opinion deals with other Yahoo readers.

A government plan to move on shopping has a wide support from Yahoo readers, while they said overwhelmingly, I think it’s a serious crime.

Readers told us that “devastate stores”, “increases the prices” and that they want “zero tolerance” for criminals.

Most important crime and police bill It was introduced in Parliament earlier this week and offers authorities a number of new powers to catch offenders.

If it had passed, the draft law would get rid of the recent legislation that made the shopping and below the 200 pounds are an exclusive crime.

This type of crime can only be judged at a court of magistrates and is generally considered to be less serious. It was introduced by the Conservative Government in 2014, but Labour says it gave “effective immunity” for lower -value stores.

Currently, the maximum punishment for the sale of goods worth less than 200 pounds is six months of custody and up to seven years for higher articles.

A new offense of aggressing a retailer would also be introduced in an attempt to offer the workers of the stores “the protection they need,” said the Government, with the criminals who face up to six months in prison.

Yahoo readers thought overwhelmingly shopping was a serious crime when you ask in our survey.

Out of 1,409 total votes, 1,275 of the respondents said that shopping is a “very serious” crime and only 87 said it is not very serious, only 47 people being undecided.

Yahoo readers were also in favor of cutting the threshold of summary offense from the current 200 pounds.

About 815 people answered our question: “What value of sales goods should be a less serious” summary “crime?

Almost everyone was in favor of not having a threshold at all or because it is less than 10 GBP.

Our readers were almost uniform in their attitudes to shop with David A from Essex saying: “Most criminals start life with a small theft, so a zero tolerance should be applied.”

Ben B from Gloucester agreed by saying: “Yes, it is a serious crime, devastated shops and increases the prices significantly and should be treated much worse.”

Martin F from Canterbury emphasized the damages he makes to business and life saying: “All sales should be treated as a serious crime, because, if left unquestioned, it creates a lack of respect for the property of people and not knowing for law and order and also means that the owners of the hard stores suffer.”

Pauline D from Merseyside also noticed how much the public costs to deal: she added: “Shoplifting is not a victim’s crime. The cost of the public bear with the increase of prices. The criminals know. The store’s staff will not stop them, because of their own safety policies for the staff.

What proposals are in the draft law?

The new draft law on crime and police cover many aspects of the police and generally offer the authorities several direct routes to combat crime.

For example, the police He would no longer need a mandate to look for a property for a stolen phone.

Officers would earn new powers to act in the “golden time” of investigations to search in a place where stolen objects were located electronically, such as through a phone tracking application, WiFi or Bluetooth.

It will also be illegal to ascend on specific war memorials, with a list of 25 locations classified as historical sites in the category of England One, including the LEICSter memory arch, Plymouth and Portsmouth and Cenotaph war memorials.

Police could also prohibit people from carrying face coverings to hide their identity to designated protests.

Also, there will be new orders of respect to prohibit the persons responsible for repeated antisocial behavior in the city centers, as well as new criminal offenses and to stop registered sex criminals who continue to have a threat to change their name.

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