VANUSHI WALTERS: —and I'm troubled by the fact that my colleagues so quickly dismisses those principles, but, Mr Bridges, you do you. It'd be easy to adopt the mechanical system that assumed all repeat offenders are exactly the same, and this three-strikes baseball analogy creates the illusion that complex issues can be addressed on a conveyor belt. Judges and practitioners know that's simply not true. They know that three strikes creates a pipeline of bias and of discrimination. They know it doesn't keep us safe in the short term when an individual on two strikes resists arrest. They know that it doesn't keep us safe in the mid to long term where individuals receive inappropriately suited penalties that mean they're essentially unseen. Lawyers, both defence and prosecution know it doesn't work.