[Omen]

If it carried a jail term, even only a couple of weeks, there'd be a lot less of it.

The real scandal of it is how expensive lawyers regularly beat it over tiny technicalities. One such lawyer was boasting on telly a while back how he does it, basically he brow beats the police officer who made the arrest, making a huge deal out of a minor one and calling all the eidence into question on the basis of one minor detail. A bit like Alistair Campbell and the fuss over the BBC.