A Freedom of Information request by The Daily Telegraph (🔒) has shown how the judiciary are allowing "super prolific criminals" to escape jail, even after multiple appearances. While only being 9% of all criminals before the courts, the super prolific are responsible for almost 50% of all crimes, about 10 million offences annually.

In 2021, 3,337 of these offenders continued to escape jail, even after each committing 50 or more offences. 258 of them had over 100 offences each without seeing a jail cell. 

In the FoI release, burglars had been caught committing up to 27 offences, without being jailed. Yet, last year only 5% of burglaries resulted in a charge, even though the average financial haul of each burglary was £1,400. Even getting these criminals into court is against the odds.  Burglaries are one of the most destabilising crimes for members of the public, as they tend to occur at night, in a place of presumed domestic security. Yet in the 2020 Sentencing Act if there are not exceptional circumstances, under the 'Three Strikes' rule burglars must be sentenced to a minimum term of three years. 

Criminals are also being convicted of up to 9 separate knife crimes, before facing any jail time, even though there is a mandatory sentence of between 6 months and four years for a second offence. 

The late US writer Sam Francis, well described a situation he termed 'anarcho-tyranny'. Here, the state imposes its weight upon the law abiding, whilst allowing the criminal underclass to escape the consequences of their actions. The general public suffers twice. Firstly, by draconian imposition for small infractions or fear of such. Secondly by being exposed to criminal threat with the effective removal of the protection of the state. This is the situation we find ourselves in, here in the progressive UK.