The angel on Jim Jefferies' left shoulderon August 18, 2025 at 5:39 pm
This is reactionary and ill-thought out. Simple ‘red meat to the base’ antics.
It is wilfully blind to ignore vast amounts of evidence from around the world which explain the better and more effective ways to reduce crime, violent or otherwise.
They don’t want legal people on there because they’ll either tell them in front of people that they foresee a suite of problems and issues heading their way and once they do this, anything that materialises that looks like the warnings makes them liable because they were told and ignored it.
But of course the CLP knows all this.
Coming to the NT soon (thank you TransparentNT blog) Just yesterday in Canberra:
… More weapons on the streets does not make a community or society safer in our view.
In the USA gun deaths and mass shootings happen with frightening regularity because guns are legal.
If you check the data you’ll also see that the highest gun deaths per capita are in the historically much more racist southern states like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana.
Just like guns, criminals and other delinquents will easily get their hands on some and use it as an offensive weapon against others. What’s the solution after that? Bigger pepper spray cans?
This is an arms race you cannot win and again does nothing to address any of the causes of crime.
Check the evidence online, it only takes a few seconds to search and find some.
Education, prevention strategies, interventions, opportunities, rehabilitation, mental health support, adolescent sport initiatives, lived experience counsellors, peer mentoring through justice reinvestment funding utilising genuine support and care from trained staff, community residents and family will get you better results than giving scared people more reason to be more scared.
The angel on Jim Jefferies' left shoulderon August 18, 2025 at 7:09 pm
*sprays you with pepper spray to shut you up* then claims you were threatening me/looking at me aggressively/smelled bad/were definitely going to attack me, I’m sure of it/walking towards me.
$5 bET! Their will be a thriving Capsicum Spray Market in the communities within the first month!
This is reactionary and ill-thought out. Simple ‘red meat to the base’ antics.
It is wilfully blind to ignore vast amounts of evidence from around the world which explain the better and more effective ways to reduce crime, violent or otherwise.
They don’t want legal people on there because they’ll either tell them in front of people that they foresee a suite of problems and issues heading their way and once they do this, anything that materialises that looks like the warnings makes them liable because they were told and ignored it.
But of course the CLP knows all this.
Coming to the NT soon (thank you TransparentNT blog)
Just yesterday in Canberra:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-17/canberra-nightclub-evacuation-capsicum-spray/105664002
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More weapons on the streets does not make a community or society safer in our view.
In the USA gun deaths and mass shootings happen with frightening regularity because guns are legal.
If you check the data you’ll also see that the highest gun deaths per capita are in the historically much more racist southern states like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana.
Just like guns, criminals and other delinquents will easily get their hands on some and use it as an offensive weapon against others. What’s the solution after that? Bigger pepper spray cans?
This is an arms race you cannot win and again does nothing to address any of the causes of crime.
Check the evidence online, it only takes a few seconds to search and find some.
Education, prevention strategies, interventions, opportunities, rehabilitation, mental health support, adolescent sport initiatives, lived experience counsellors, peer mentoring through justice reinvestment funding utilising genuine support and care from trained staff, community residents and family will get you better results than giving scared people more reason to be more scared.
Agreed, this is a CLP disaster.
We agree with queensland, far to dangerous, difficult to deploy by victims and will be used against victims.
How much harm of victims will be acceptable to the so called oversight community and the NT Administrator?
the only thing wrong is the spray is far too mild.
*sprays you with pepper spray to shut you up* then claims you were threatening me/looking at me aggressively/smelled bad/were definitely going to attack me, I’m sure of it/walking towards me.