Charged With A Crime? You Need to Consult Criminal Law Firms.

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If you've been charged with a crime in a community such as Abbotsford or Vancouver, BC, you are up against many and powerful forces who want to punish you for what they believe were your actions. Because punishment today means going to jail those many and powerful forces want to put you in jail. Because there is so much talk about putting persons in jail, by the public and in the press, the first thought that most person have when charged with an offence is, “Am, I Going To Jail?”

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The question most asked by persons charged with an offence to our Abbotsford lawyers is, “…does this mean I am going to jail?” The answer to that question is “… likely not …”. A lot more persons charged with an offence are released on conditions than are sent to jail. By and large it depends on who you have been, who you are now, and what are your prospects. These are the “forces” that will keep you out of jail. But you should know that there also forces that want to put you in jail. And those forces want to put you in jail for longer periods of time.

The forces that want you in jail when you are charged with an offence are the police and prosecutors. They act for and are paid by the public and they will work for what the public wants. Let’s deal with each in turn to learn what makes them ask the court to put you in jail.

The police have been asked and they are paid by Canadians to keep the property and the persons of Canadians safe from crime. Because this is a difficult and dangerous job, the police want all the help they can get. The more police there are the more criminals can be caught. The more criminals that are caught the smaller the group of criminals that are left. The smaller the group of criminals that are left the less crime there will be. It follows that the longer the criminal group stays smaller there will be less crime for a longer time.

One of the easiest ways to make the criminal group smaller for a longer time is to remove criminals from the group for a longer time. It is for that reason that the police want persons who commit offences to stay behind bars, and stay behind those bars longer. Removing crime from communities such as Abbotsford is an overriding aim of our governement. Criminal law firms such as Dykstra & Company represent people charged with crimes and build the best defence possible to ensure legal rights are protected.

Prosecutors are legally trained persons who are hired and paid by Canadians to prove that the persons charged with offences are guilty of that offence. Prosecutors get their information from the police. Prosecutors work closely with the police so that what the police found out is brought before the court. Prosecutors are paid by the public. The public wants offenders put into jail. Prosecutors ask for what the persons who pay them want them to ask for.

In addition prosecutors listen to the demands of the public, listen to the demands of victims of crime and read the stories in the media of the victims of crime and the demands made by the writers of those stories. Those demands made on prosecutors cause them to ask the courts to put the guilty persons away, meaning in jail, and put them away for longer so we do not need to deal with them so soon again.

So you can see that the forces that want to put persons charged with an offence in jail are many and they are powerful. Not only are they many and powerful, those forces are supported by the public.

Dykstra & Company are Abbotsford lawyers. We are one of hand-full of criminal law firms serving the Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver.

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