I have zero doubt that youth crime is a problem in many places, and I am certain that a lot of speed enforcement is purely revenue-generating. I simply bristle at reductive statements from politicians like Knuth who only have complaints and no plans. Both of these issues are non-trivial to address, but nobody wants to hear about complexities, because that means change will take time. They just want things to change now, and that’s not happening.
They just want things to change now, and that’s not happening.
Yeah see that’s exactly what gets everyone worked up. On one hand Youth detention centres are so overcrowded and understaffed the kids have to be locked in their cells 23 hours a day - a horrific breach of human rights if it was done to an adult, let alone kids. And on the other hand some of the crimes the kids are committing are even more horrific than that (seriously, I don’t even want to write about some of the stories I’ve been close to).
The people in those towns want the state premier (not just a single politician from a minor party) to drop whatever they’re doing and deal with this. Now. Right now. It’s hard for us to imagine anything else more important that could possibly be on the premier’s desk than this issue. But instead we get told “the problem is complex”. We know it’s complex. We’re living it.
