Very sad for the worker’s family and all that knew them. When will the government start acting to control crime? Do we need to waste more police resources and have officers at every bottleshop?
This is the most disgusting event ever! The total life focus on alcohol by losers living on some unfathomable wavelength has to be tackled. You can now die because you refused service of alcohol? Where are the politicians now? Preparing template media responses.
When will this stop. I am betting it is another young man who has come through our oh so easy Justice system thinking he can get away with anything and, at the beginning of his adult life, he has taken the life of another because of it. Two lives utterly destroyed, not to mention the families, one squarely at the hands of a Government who believe there is no need to teach young people there are real consequences for actions until it is far too late, the other a young man simply trying to make his way in the world by doing the right thing by society and earning his living. I fear that there is a whole generation of young offenders out there who believe they are above the law through far too soft “consequences” of their crimes whilst under the legal adult age, that are heading down the path to long term prison sentences and untold societal damage because they have never been made to actually take full responsibility for their actions to the point where they have a respect for the law. It is all well and good to say that we need to keep young people out of prison because they can be influenced by those already serving sentences. However, the other very real consequence is that when kids think they have been let off lightly and you leave them in society to keep their family happy (read voting the right way) and to be able to brag to their mates about how they always get away with it, you create an epidemic of youth proving to their social group that they also can get away with anything, ultimately zeroing any respect for the law. We have rampant crime all over the Territory, gangs in our shopping centres, bottle shops being robbed on a daily basis, vehicles being stolen and used to ram Police cars, city centres being locked down because of rampant crime, home invasions, rapes, murders, child abuse, deadly rock throwing and the perpetrators being given “alternative” treatment or sent back to Community
And now a young man dead.
“We are looking into it”, “It requires Generational change” and fudged statistics do not cut it any more.
I fear if our Government cannot see the light and take rapid and drastic action to remedy the situation, we will increasingly reap what has been sown and the consequences will not be pretty.
Very sad for the worker’s family and all that knew them. When will the government start acting to control crime? Do we need to waste more police resources and have officers at every bottleshop?
This is the most disgusting event ever!
The total life focus on alcohol by losers living on some unfathomable wavelength has to be tackled.
You can now die because you refused service of alcohol?
Where are the politicians now? Preparing template media responses.
They’re waiting for someone to say something so that they can accuse them of politicizing the issue.
When will this stop.
I am betting it is another young man who has come through our oh so easy Justice system thinking he can get away with anything and, at the beginning of his adult life, he has taken the life of another because of it. Two lives utterly destroyed, not to mention the families, one squarely at the hands of a Government who believe there is no need to teach young people there are real consequences for actions until it is far too late, the other a young man simply trying to make his way in the world by doing the right thing by society and earning his living.
I fear that there is a whole generation of young offenders out there who believe they are above the law through far too soft “consequences” of their crimes whilst under the legal adult age, that are heading down the path to long term prison sentences and untold societal damage because they have never been made to actually take full responsibility for their actions to the point where they have a respect for the law.
It is all well and good to say that we need to keep young people out of prison because they can be influenced by those already serving sentences. However, the other very real consequence is that when kids think they have been let off lightly and you leave them in society to keep their family happy (read voting the right way) and to be able to brag to their mates about how they always get away with it, you create an epidemic of youth proving to their social group that they also can get away with anything, ultimately zeroing any respect for the law.
We have rampant crime all over the Territory, gangs in our shopping centres, bottle shops being robbed on a daily basis, vehicles being stolen and used to ram Police cars, city centres being locked down because of rampant crime, home invasions, rapes, murders, child abuse, deadly rock throwing and the perpetrators being given “alternative” treatment or sent back to Community
And now a young man dead.
“We are looking into it”, “It requires Generational change” and fudged statistics do not cut it any more.
I fear if our Government cannot see the light and take rapid and drastic action to remedy the situation, we will increasingly reap what has been sown and the consequences will not be pretty.
Absolutely correct Louie M. Your words should be included in this publication as a free to read opinion piece.