Zero tolerance is the policy or practice of not tolerating unwanted behavior, such as violence or use of illegal drugs. For instance if a person mugged someone and was caught and there was a zero tolerance policy then the mugger would not have been given any tolerance.

My views on it are that it is a very good way of stopping crime as criminals will not be let off lightly and therefore may encourage them not do to it again. Others have different views on this, some say that it is unfair that they are given no tolerance toward there crime witch may have been an accident and their making it sound worse than what it actually is.

I think it will be good if it was introduced as the punishment don’t be reduced, the punishment will be harsher and they will think before they do it again and the crime rate will fall.

Over the past few years the crime rate of the USA and many other countries has fallen and is falling. Is this due to Zero tolerance? In Australia they have a zero tolerance policy. So has the crime rate decreased? Well Australia has a lower criminal rate per 100,000 people than the USA. With Australia as 46 criminals out of 100,000 and USA with 981 criminals. This clearly shows that crime rates have decreased and that the zero tolerance here would be a good thing. Will we make our 504 criminals per 100,000 people to 46 like Australia maybe but it will make a difference and make everyone safer fell more secure and a lot happier