Jasper Packard: “Republicans are keeping their promises and working to pass the Republican crime fighting agenda. Our message is clear.…”

“Republicans are keeping their promises and working to pass the Republican crime fighting agenda. Our message is clear. Criminal behavior will no longer be tolerated. Punishment must be certain, swift, and severe. Criminals are not victims of society, they victimize society and belong behind bars. Today's criminal justice system distorts common sense and puts criminal's rights far out ahead of victim's rights. The result, criminals running rampant on our streets and law-abiding citizens afraid to go outside. The Republican crime fighting agenda seeks to turn this distortion around and make criminals afraid to break the law. The best crime fighting tool is a criminal justice system which sends criminals the message that your chances of being caught are high. Once we catch you, you will be punished quickly and severely. The Violent Criminal Incarceration Act works to do just that. It breaks the gridlock in our criminal justice system which gives legal escape routes to repeat violent offenders. Criminals will finally have to face the consequences of their actions. They will do the time for committing the crime. Violent criminals belong behind bars, not behind the coat tails of expensive lawyers clogging up our overburdened judicial system with endless baseless appeals.”