I imagine caning helps with quite a number of infractions...
Dang, ya beat me to it.
I wish we could cane people for graffiti.
There are some times I am ok with draconian punishment when the rules are clear. Do not deface someone else’ property or we will cane you. I cannot think of a way that an adult could run afoul of that law unintentionally.
I actually lived in Singapore in the 1990s for a brief time on work assignment
back in 1994, an American teenager (a spoiled rich brat with a corporate CEO parents living in Singapore) was caught vandalizing some cars
The government ordered him caned approx. 10 times
Typically arrogant democrats got Bill Clinton involved as a “human rights issue” and Singapore Gov’t, to give Clinton some “face,” reduced the sentence to about 4 canings, if memory serves.
Our other American friends were aghast that Clinton would be so stupid to get involved with such a petty case, on the side of a punk teenager vandal.
All the Americans I knew in Singapore wanted the kid caned according to Singapore Law. Having lived through Koch and Dinkens administrations in NY City, I knew the reasons Singapore was so clean and efficient.
When were you there?
“I imagine caning helps with quite a number of infractions...”
Yes, it’s much more effective, cheaper with almost no recidivism.
Compare a bit of caning to the disaster we have here, where we arrest people for even major infractions, pay their lawyers (and ours), let them go, do the same thing the next day or week...and rinse and repeat. So our system allows the perps to do the beating of innocent people and worse.
And if you put them in jail, then the expenses get even higher.
A bit of corporal punishment is much more effective and cheaper. It doesn’t have to be torture, just painful and embarrassing enough to keep them from doing it again.
It is a fantastic tool and a very effective deterrent. Nobody dies, they just get a little beat up and the memories are left with them. We should do it here, frequently.