1 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:14,079 Good evening. I'm crouching as we're following a gang of men 2 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:16,111 who broke into that building. 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:17,991 One of them's a recidivist. 4 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,192 These men have been specially trained. Look at that training! 5 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:25,915 (Policeman) On the floor! (Chris) Crime is confusing. 6 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:27,871 I've got him, he's over here. 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,717 His name is Ritchie Blawse. 8 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,911 Look at the front of his head, you've seen it before. 9 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,270 He was on this programme saying, "I'm giving up crime." 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,471 Why have you gone back to crime? He doesn't know. 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,069 Tonight on Brass Eye, why has he gone back to crime? 12 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,149 "UK" used to mean United Kingdom 13 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,749 but ask anyone today and they'll tell you it stands for 14 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,791 Unbelievable Crimewave. 15 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,917 No one is safe. 16 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:30,236 By the end of tomorrow, one or all of these people 17 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,751 may have been set on fire, bum-raped or burgled senseless by criminals. 18 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,278 This month, police pictures showed another estate in Manchester 19 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:42,311 turning itself into a gun. 20 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,750 It's not just the great unhosed. 21 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,918 These raiders all earn over £200,000 a year in big banks. 22 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,391 So much for recorded crimes 23 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:57,228 but crimes we know nothing about are going up as well. 24 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,590 What hope do we have of battering these down? 25 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,117 The Home Secretary scores repeated own goals. 26 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,958 Over 1,200 convicts were released last month 27 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,039 after lying to the Home Office about how long they'd been inside. 28 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:15,832 And just two days ago, 29 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,792 it was revealed that convicts in Dartmoor Prison 30 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,799 had been running an international airport for over 14 years. 31 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,479 I am not an expert on air traffic control. 32 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,149 I thought they were landing nearby but not in my prison. 33 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,511 So what causes crime? 34 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,916 Social deprivation? This bleak report from Ted Maul. 35 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,836 From the moon, Cowsick's a little dot. 36 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,474 From the ground, it's a huge mess, 37 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,637 Iike Dante meets Bosch in a crack lounge. 38 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,070 I'm here to ask a question - is alarm justified? 39 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:54,352 Is time running out for Cowsick or is this the start of a new day? 40 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,675 The first day of spring. 41 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,589 Cowsick. The stench of poverty hangs in the air like an old man's nappy. 42 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,598 For the kids, it's a depravity supermarket, 43 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:10,315 where bad is free and society foots the bill. 44 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,353 Not many cars to nick here, so they hijack pedestrians 45 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,597 and run them around at terrifying leg speeds. 46 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,631 It's called "git surfing". 47 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,956 All too often, the "git" is one of their own mothers. 48 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,151 The latest trick - catapult them into a shop... 49 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,273 and force them to steal booze, fags and mags. 50 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,912 (Police chatter) 51 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,155 For the cops, it's a jungle... 52 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,237 where dangerous animals speak Swear-hili. 53 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,350 Sounds like we got a burst shop. 54 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,358 Kids burst shops by filling them with rice 55 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,029 and pouring in water, then standing back and laughing 56 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,755 while the bricks are ripped apart by the swelling food. 57 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,634 They say a bored mind makes a great office for the devil. 58 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:00,913 In Kerry Hufford's case, it's fully air-conditioned with free typing. 59 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,873 He's been arrested for menacing a helpless codger. 60 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,879 Jill and Sainsbur McManus are a rattly pair of old puffins 61 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,993 who remember Cowsick when people could still be trusted. 62 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,237 Everybody had keys to everybody else's house 63 00:04:16,280 --> 00:04:21,513 and the locks were sort of made of something like paper. 64 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,917 On September the 15th, the McManuses went to bed, 65 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,509 unaware they were being watched by the Hufford gang. 66 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,797 Moments later, three kids had broken in. 67 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:36,354 Kerry was dressed as an angel. 68 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:40,313 He woke the old man up and told him he was dead 69 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,999 and must go outside and bury himself. 70 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,792 He ran out the room, 71 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:47,832 Kerry and me were rolling on the floor in hysterics 72 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,953 and he was pulling all the grass out, and chucking it everywhere 73 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,639 and we were just laughing at him. 74 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,877 Sainsbur would definitely be Costa del Blowfly 75 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,309 if the cops hadn't seen him by chance 76 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,796 while they were tracking a man who'd buggered a heron. 77 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:07,549 Maybe we can understand kids like Kerry by looking at his family. 78 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,036 Dad, unemployed. Mum, depressed beyond tablets. 79 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,073 You want to help them but they've got to help themselves. 80 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,750 Do you agree with this question - if you don't get a job, he gets stuffed? 81 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,632 I'm trying to get a job. It's not like I'm not trying. 82 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,399 - You must try harder. - I'm trying. 83 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,396 - But really hard. - I am. 84 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,115 Couldn't you just go round somebody's house and clean up? 85 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:35,957 Clean up somebody's house? 86 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,912 - Then ask for money for it. - I could do that. 87 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:40,712 Why not do that tomorrow? 88 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,514 - All right. It's a bit demea... - Good. Thanks for talking to us. 89 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,314 Cowsick people are the smashed toes of a lame duck society. 90 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,990 A lame duck that's attacking its own feet with a sledgehammer. 91 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,918 Will the nightmare ever end for Cowsick? 92 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,918 Perhaps with outside help. Oh, yeah? 93 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,111 In 1993, the council gave them a football. 94 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,435 Good...but not enough. 95 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,393 In '95, Paul McCartney donated 100 top hats. 96 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:11,277 Fat use. 97 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,915 And last year, the mayor gave them a gold mine. 98 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,476 It actually worked for a bit until someone clogged it up with sick. 99 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,399 Sick's a met-aphor for the way these people lead their lives 100 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:28,434 and it'll stay that way until someone lets in the wind of change. 101 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:41,595 And as a result of that experience, 102 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,713 Ted Maul has been absent for some time with nervous exhaust. 103 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:56,315 Do you feel that vigilantism is gonna help in the long run? 104 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,909 I think it will arise in an area where something has gone wrong. 105 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:01,518 In Gotham City in the States 106 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,792 they call a specialist vigilante agent when they're in real trouble 107 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:10,118 by projecting a huge, luminous emergency bat sign into the sky 108 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,438 and he comes rushing in and so far, that has...worked. 109 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,392 Is that something that should be encouraged? 110 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,796 - I'd have to see it. - Well, it looks good. 111 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,274 It'd have to be a very, er... 112 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,437 Individual with great magnetism. 113 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,631 I think that's what it is. It's his special sign. 114 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,035 They're one-offs and it's very nice. 115 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,631 In school-mastering we have people who could do it in a unique way 116 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,717 but don't try and get other people doing it. 117 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,275 But when Bruce Wayne goes, it's all gonna collapse. 118 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,915 Yeah. Yeah, but it's happened throughout history. 119 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,199 Is crime gonna get any worse? 120 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,038 Yes, it is. Just look at America. 121 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,311 Alabaster Codify reports on their latest mess. 122 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,278 Fadanoid with Chuck Fadanoid. 123 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,869 (Codify) 'Top talk topic Stateside right now. 124 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,674 The priests who say they must pack a piece to keep the peace. 125 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,396 Last week I had a... Well 200 or 300 in the congregation. 126 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,635 I got up and I said, 127 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,353 "Anybody here who's got a gun can leave now." 128 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,152 Ten minutes later, three people had left - two kids and a deaf guy. 129 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,715 The padre-noia really took off after Minister Vocas Wabe 130 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,797 was shot at a baptism for forgetting the baby's name. 131 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,273 Fuckin' asshole! 132 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,677 More and more, the holy flock is becoming a gory gun-gregation. 133 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,711 Practising four times a week, 134 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,399 Father Coopex, a fully-fledged Revolverend. 135 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,590 Liked your style there. 136 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,235 I use the one-handed grip, it gives you a smaller profile 137 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,795 if there's answering fire, like from the congregation. 138 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,913 In Coopex' church, a would-be shootist doesn't have a prayer. 139 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,520 This is a defensive measure which is bulletproof, 140 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:02,439 and a hole has been cut so I can return fire. 141 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,031 That was the pimp that took my crucifix and put it on his car. 142 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,878 The holy gun-spel according to St Marksman. 143 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,512 I got him that time. 144 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:15,553 There's even ad campaigns to recruit more pistol apostles. 145 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,508 - (TV) 'No room at the inn? - (Gunfire) 146 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:22,313 - 'There is now. - (Gunfire) 147 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,874 Judas, you plan to betray me. 148 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,753 (Gunfire and manic laughter) 149 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,076 Despite the increasing violence against priests, 150 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,078 many say they are too revved up to handle guns. 151 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,556 At this wedding, Minister Pat Rizzo shot a guest in the leg. 152 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,434 The issue peaked on TV on a rat-a-tat-tat show showdown 153 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,711 featuring Coopex and the two prota-gunnists. 154 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,399 - You were shot by a minister? - Right. 155 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,079 You were shot by this minister with a gun? 156 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,351 This is Pat Rizzo, the man who shot at the wedding. 157 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,198 You haven't seen him since he shot you. React. 158 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,549 What the hell were you doing? 159 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,114 You moved funny, I had to shoot. 160 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:02,957 What?! I was at a wedding. 161 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,831 You looked like a criminal! 162 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,190 Look at those hairy arms, you could be a man in a dress. 163 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,073 - You! I'm gonna get you. - (Pat) Don't... 164 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,953 (Man) Freeze. (Fadanoid) Put the gun down. 165 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,470 Someone could get shot here. Pouch that piece, Padre. 166 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,273 - Stay where you are. - Pouch that piece! 167 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,438 Two priests left the show in a tank, shooting as they went. 168 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,438 As the ammu-missionaries get trigger-holy, 169 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,436 Sunday turns to gun-day 170 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,074 and America awaits the Blast Judgment. 171 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,112 This is Alabaster Codify, for 10NN and Brass Eye. 172 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,958 Sadly, crime experts predict that one day, 173 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,436 even friendly conversation between mother and daughter 174 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,550 will be conducted at gunpoint. 175 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,515 Up next, a new scheme for young offenders. 176 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:52,109 Take the Cashback scheme that they're gonna try in Toxteth, 177 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,835 where young offenders are on a 14-week sentence. 178 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,189 It costs two grand a week to keep them, 179 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,437 so rather than spend 28 grand to keep them inside, 180 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,278 they give them 25 grand and say, "Here you are, 181 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,550 "use that for a positive reason." 182 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,991 I think that's a smashing idea. Yeah, I do, honestly. 183 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,793 If they had done that to you, what would have happened? 184 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,752 I don't think you'd have ever heard of me again. 185 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:21,078 Would enlisting somebody like Richard Branson to sell the Cashback scheme 186 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,111 might just work? 187 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:24,912 I wouldn't say no to that. 188 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,316 I suppose if there was an element of stick, 189 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:32,831 Richard Branson up in a balloon watching this situation saying, 190 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,190 "There's your £26,000 but I'm watching you from a balloon 191 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,198 "and I can see a very long way." 192 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,231 I'd go along with that. 193 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,239 Now chafing the transmission heads, 194 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,716 what is the relationship between crime and race? 195 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,116 Using make-up sticks, we transformed our white reporter, 196 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,310 Trass Dupress, into a black man 197 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,193 to see if the law would treat him any differently. 198 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,994 Within five minutes, he'd committed a pocket theft. 199 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:35,068 By mid-afternoon, he was attacking passers-by with violent muggings 200 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,635 and fleecing them viciously on the cobbles. 201 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,948 There's the evidence. Mr Koka, what do you make of that? 202 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,357 Now I've seen the proof, I apologise for my fellow blacks, I'm sorry. 203 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,391 Thank you very much. 204 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,629 What's the solution to rising crime, 205 00:12:56,680 --> 00:12:58,955 particularly younger and younger? 206 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,879 For many, the answer to the problem can be summed up in just one word. 207 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:04,717 Bring back borstal. 208 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,391 But did they work? 209 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,991 Good question because borstals were phased out in 1982. 210 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:15,837 Ted Maul reports. 211 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:17,996 Borstals like Fork Hurst are to be axed 212 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,157 as they're full of men who should have been released. 213 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,796 (Ted) 'Jock Bosonet was sent here as a juvenile offender in 1949. 214 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,389 He never left because he kept failing release tests. 215 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,069 Like hundreds of others, he remained in chokey, 216 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,271 even though the offences were small and twatty. 217 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:41,189 When I was seven, I got dressed up as a little city gent... 218 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:45,074 and walked into the Bank of England shouting for a pound. 219 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,509 While the situation is grave enough 220 00:13:47,560 --> 00:13:50,518 to merit a black-and-white freeze-frame, 221 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:52,596 the solution may be at hand 222 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,950 with the opening of Harsh Pounds for young offenders. 223 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,070 Libby Shuss reports. 224 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,999 Leobald Quay, opened six months ago right here, 225 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:07,033 and already is favoured by both main political parties. 226 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,878 And the third party, who are with Ashdown. 227 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,071 I'm going inside now, like a bad boy. 228 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,674 The new inmates are welcomed on arrival... 229 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,233 You shits! Up that hill! 230 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,477 ..and are sent straight to the shaving room. 231 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,193 Here, their eyebrows are shaved off, 232 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,835 which undermines their self-respect rather well. 233 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:33,954 (Man) If you think of a fly and you pull its wings off, it'll crawl. 234 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,560 But if you push the back half of its body 235 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:40,479 onto the surface it's squiggling on... 236 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,399 then you've got its total, undivided attention. 237 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,309 In the Gulf War, Jackson was Allied advisor on psycho battery. 238 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,876 At Leobald, his expertise is applied without mercy. 239 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,037 The inmates' sleep is frequently interrupted. 240 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,674 (Screams) 241 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,712 Room inspections are full of sneaky traps, 242 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,389 like the brass moustache hidden behind a notice board. 243 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,237 Why didn't you polish it? 244 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,669 - How funny is it? - Not, sir. 245 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,599 Bury the beds. Mattresses, pillows, sheets, bury! 246 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,996 The men will dig up their bedclothes this evening 247 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,110 and sleep in them, all earthy. 248 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,675 If they'd done better, they might have won a privilege. 249 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,759 Despite his criminal mind, this man is behaving well. 250 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,597 His reward is the canoe. 251 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,474 This time he can sit in the canoe for up to an hour. 252 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:35,556 Meanwhile, the troublemaker 253 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,797 is made to sprint blindfold to Jackson's office, 254 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,229 where he receives a speaking down. 255 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:45,068 That is my shiny shoe and you are a big piece of shit on it. 256 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,396 - Sir. - Lick yourself off my shoe. 257 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,670 Lick yourself off my shoe. 258 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,439 Lick the shit off his shoe! 259 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:59,600 Don't actually do it! Where's your self-re-cocking-spect? 260 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,108 - I don't know, sir. - Get out! Now! 261 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,515 - Sir. - Look at me. Get out. 262 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:08,553 (Jackson) If you take a seal and hit it very hard in the face 263 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,989 every day for six weeks, 264 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,272 you may turn it into a rather fetching hat. 265 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,390 And the future for these fuckers? 266 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,273 Will they succeed in returning to society? 267 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,029 So, you're nearing the end of your training, your regime, 268 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,594 and looking forward to joining society. 269 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,995 How do you feel about that? 270 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,669 - I haven't got skills. - Skills? For what? 271 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,711 Getting back into society. 272 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,390 - You could have a family and... - I could have, I don't know. 273 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,955 - (Laughter) - Now, if...you made the effort, 274 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,468 became a part of a family, 275 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:49,274 then you could root yourself into the fabric of society. 276 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,198 - I'll root you into fuckin' society! - (Laughter) 277 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,596 There is a serious question. I am from society... 278 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,915 We know. 279 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:01,430 You're not from society, how do you get back into society? 280 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,835 - Up your arse. - (Laughter) 281 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,388 There are no simple answers to the problem of punishment 282 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,238 but there is a simple question. 283 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,431 Would it really matter if one of these men died? 284 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,471 Perhaps the most positive step 285 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,671 has come from the Home Office action group, Key 2000, 286 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,314 who produced a video to play to young offenders 287 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:37,351 on their arrival in prison. 288 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,311 Well, they got you, then. 289 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:49,150 They gone and banged you up good and proper. So, what now? 290 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,637 What I'd like to do right now is take your bad half outside 291 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,752 and do it an extremely physical discourtesy 292 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:02,238 and then buy your good half a pint of foaming, nut-brown ale. 293 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:03,872 Cheers. 294 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,192 Meet Geoff Boycott 295 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,630 and shake hands with a walking continent of common sense. 296 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,989 I didn't get runs by slacking. 297 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,350 I worked hard, I grafted, I practised, 298 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,153 I did it as well as I could, properly. 299 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,431 So when you get up in the morning, what do you do? 300 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,471 You get out of bed properly, 301 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,638 and that means all the way out of it, get right out of the bed. 302 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,559 No half measures. You must get your whole body out of the bed, 303 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,636 right out from under the sheets, 304 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,797 right off the mattress until you're standing up. 305 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,469 You won't get anywhere slouching about half out of bed. 306 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,717 Do you seriously think the people here wouldn't notice 307 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,274 if you were only half out of the bed? 308 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,276 Come on, wise up. 309 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:55,359 Did I walk out to bat when I was half asleep or half out of bed? 310 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,868 Of course not. I bloody well didn't. 311 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,151 Remember, the best technique is to look at that bed 312 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,636 and then try and get as far away from it as possible. 313 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,834 Gary Glitter said, "Good to be back," 314 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,872 but in your case, that does not apply. 315 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,480 I can't believe it, you little ponce. 316 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,080 You've gone and done it again, ain'cha? 317 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:22,793 Did you really like it so much last time? 318 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,992 What? You didn't? Then why the hell did you come back? 319 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,272 All right, easy now. No foaming nut-brown ale for you this time 320 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,552 but here, for God's sake, listen to this and do us a favour, 321 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,512 pay attention this time. 322 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:43,475 I've been asked to read the words of a successful reformed criminal, 323 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,637 someone who got a grip, and this is what he says - 324 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,468 "Remember that your life in prison is like a dog in a box. 325 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,479 "What you've got to do is make the dog bigger than the box. 326 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,638 "Not in a bad way, like a mad wolf in a matchbox, 327 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:00,557 "but more like a giant, 328 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,036 "a well-behaved Alsatian in a Kleenex box. 329 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,675 "Your aim is to place that dog in the lap of the governor - 330 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,633 "that's the evil part of you - with a smile, as you leave." 331 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,471 You are a murderer and I can only pray to God 332 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,035 that you watch and you listen very carefully to this. 333 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,117 Hello. You think you don't know me, don't you? 334 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,391 Yes, but you do because I'm the shopkeeper you shot 335 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,396 in a mindless hold-up. 336 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,954 You blew out my guts, remember? 337 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,595 I'm the old lady whose head you stove in with a wardrobe 338 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,074 in the middle of the night, remember? 339 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:43,953 I'm the boy whose face you stabbed off in panic 340 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,958 when I found you robbing my house, remember? 341 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,072 I'm Marvin Gaye, shot by my own father. 342 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:52,475 Oh, yes, you know me all right. 343 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:57,230 Look at my eyes, murderer, you killed me. 344 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,352 What the hell did you do that for? 345 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,391 Look at me! Feel proud, do you? 346 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,874 Do you even know what a feeling is? 347 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,913 I do but I can't have any more now because of you. You! 348 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:14,159 You get out after 25 years but me, I'm here forever. 349 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,430 I hate you. 350 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:25,829 While you're inside, you'll have to learn a new language. 351 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,030 It's not French, it's prison slang. 352 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,913 I've got some of it here so it might help you. 353 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,270 "Howard's arse" means prison. 354 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,756 "One-nil at half-time" means food. 355 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,872 "Woggy coconuts" means air bricks. 356 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:45,994 "Gazza" is a Gascoigne used as currency for cigarettes. 357 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,555 "Plank sanction" - a one-for-one fag exchange. 358 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,991 "Sue my chin" - give us a fag, I'll give you two next week. 359 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,430 "Buff my pylon" - give us a fag, you owe me two 360 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,869 so I'm letting you off the other one. 361 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:03,435 "Don't buff my pylon" - switch over the telly. 362 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,948 And, er, very important this one, 363 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,754 "Portillo" means look out behind you. 364 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,837 Learn the language, better communication. 365 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,599 That's one way of dealing with offenders, 366 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,915 but what about the bigger picture? 367 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,110 - Thanks to the news dwarf. - Pleasure. 368 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,233 The hope is we'll benefit from a number of European projects. 369 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,953 Research shows that football riots can be halted instantly 370 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,515 by showing pornography on the video displays. 371 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,917 For street disturbances, the police are breeding elephants, 372 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,909 following their successful deployment in Athens and Turin. 373 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:48,112 In Holland, they've halved the crime rate by legalising murder, 374 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,116 introducing slaughter cafes. 375 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,994 We used to come here with knives and slash them in the guts 376 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:58,192 but we got bored after that, after about two weeks, 377 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,755 I just eat my cake now and wash it down with a cup of coff. 378 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,076 This French system of victim support comes to Britain soon. 379 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:09,750 Last month, that woman found a young offender defecating on her floor. 380 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,590 Under police supervision, she meets the offender at his house. 381 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:21,400 And is given an hour to formalise a similar return on his floor. 382 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,078 Good night. 383 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,673 I'm violently against hanging. 384 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,235 I believe no human's got the right to take another's life. 385 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,953 So, you shouldn't be allowed to take someone's life? 386 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,513 No, what I'm saying is... 387 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,552 The penalty for taking a life should be the death penalty? 388 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:49,196 No, I personally am totally opposed to the death penalty. 389 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,392 - But it's OK to take a life? - No, only in self-defence. 390 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,796 If you murder somebody, you've taken away their life, 391 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,674 and in that circumstance only, that person should be killed. 392 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,188 No. I believe under no circumstances 393 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,835 does one human being have the right to take another's life. 394 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,792 - No way, surely. - That's my opinion. 395 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,877 I'm not saying it's... Everything's about opinions. 396 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,549 Is it? Yes, it is. What about capital punishment for murder? 397 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,478 No, I personally believe on moral grounds 398 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,478 that no human being can take another's life. 399 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,149 Or if you didn't take their life, just murdered them? 400 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,792 Say that again. 401 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,038 If you didn't take somebody's life, you just murdered them...