Putting WiFi Jammers On Teenage Criminals Instead Of Sending Them To Prison Is A Brilliant Idea

Telegraph- People who commit cyber-crime should be forced to wear wifi jammers to prevent them using the internet, rather than being sent to prison, a senior police leader has suggested. While traditional crime is falling, computer based offences, including fraud, the sharing and viewing of indecent images and social media abuse, are soaring and now account for 40 per cent of all crime in the UK.

But one senior officer has said sending such people to prison is not appropriate or effective and we need to find new ways to punish cyber-criminals. Chief Superintendent Gavin Thomas, who is the president of the Police Superintendents’ Association, has suggested using technology to deprive offenders of access to the internet. He said convicted criminals could be fitted with electronic jammers around their wrists or ankles which blocked wifi signals and prevented them from going online. He said for many young people, being deprived of access to their smartphone or computer, would be an extremely effective punishment.

I don’t like to give credits to the Brits all that often because of events prior to 1776, but tip of the goddamn hat to you blokes across the pond. You take a teenager away from the internet, you are basically giving them a sentence worse than jail time. You can go on a computer but can’t use it for anything good is tragic. Actually you take anyone under the age of 40 or so away from the internet and they are completely fucked. Unlimited buffet of streaming porn? Gone. Every song ever at your fingertips? Hasta luego motherfucker.

Plus I don’t know how the jammer works, but if it kills the signal of any device within range, that kid is now a leper amongst his friends. Probably will be shunned to the farthest corners of the Earth by his peers. Crimes may actually be committed against the kid with the jammer because he killed someone’s signal. Completely turning the tables on criminals. Sure you may get your face or your ass pounded in prison. And you can’t use the internet in jail either. But at least you aren’t wearing a modern day scarlet letter in the clink. If this idea doesn’t cut into the crime rate, nothing will.

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