No one can understand way the police are allowing little yobs to cause violence and fear on our streets?

Question

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Answer 1

what can i say, that hasnt been said by thousands of others, the government and liberal do-gooders, took away the rights of parents and schools to chastise or discipline the kids. So how do you teach a kid right from wrong now, why he said sarcastically, you tell them they cant play out for a few days/a week, and they laugh at you, and the school's only form of punishment now is to exclude them for a period of time(give them more daylight hours to run the streets) or put them on a part time teaching schedule (WOW that encourages education, nottttttttt) meanwhile they're fed a diet of violence on tv/cinema/games consoles, and we wonder where they get the idea that violence is glamorous.
As for the police letting them get away with it, I've had more than one older PC say to me, "god just think in the old days you'd give em a thick ear, take em home and their dad would do the same for getting in to trouble." Well sadly thanks to successive nanny governments and the EU laws, if we smack opur kids now, we're child abusers, thanks prime minister and government, perhaps you can tell Rhys Evans parents how it would be wrong to punish his murderers because of their deprived upbringing, with their mobile phones, their drugs, their gangs, their love of violence, when all they've really been deprived of, is a good kick up the A R S E.

P.S. I assume from bear's answer he's a police officer, if so good for you mate, i'm only sorry you don't get more support from the government and in many cases the communities you blokes work in. take care bear and thanks for the good work.

Answer 2

ALLOWING? I hardly think that the police are allowing thugs to commit crimes. Sometimes, it is just not possible to capture and arrest every criminal.

The laws exist to best help criminals off the street, but some laws are just not good enough. Also, politicians don't always want to get involved in discussions about race groups and crime or in changing laws. They wonder if it will effect their standing as pollies. Sadly, the days are gone when the safety of the people was paramount.

However! I think it's too far to say that the police let criminals cause crime. The police can only enforce the law as it stands, whether it is fitting or not. To go further, subjects the police to charges of assault or failing to do their job sufficiently. In the Military, this is called 'Dereliction of Duty'. This is where someone fails to obey an order or regulation, further, that a person deliberately fails to perform one's expected duties, either through 'negligence or culpable inefficiency'.

I'm sure the police are doing their very best, and do not need the community questioning their performance. I admit that there might be officer's who have questionable actions, but most would be fine and loyal men and women.

Can you imagine going to work with the notion that you could be shot, stabbed with a knife or syringe? Beaten up or attacked in some other way?

Don't denegrate them. Instead, talk to your local councils or state senators. Think about community activities that the people can put into place to change things. A lot of the time, kids only cause trouble and commit crimes because they are bored and have nothing to do. Kids need more activity in their lives.

Maybe programs in schools could educate children whn they are young, about the dangers of commiting crimes, and how to respect the community in which they live and the people in it.

Answer 3

I think the justice system is too soft nowadays.

Even touching a child could be misinterpreted as sexual assault or GBH because people are too jumpy about being accused. Heck, even being accused can ruin your life. And if yobs do get caught, what then? Detention at a day-spa with their own games console?

"Oh no officer, not the Playstation 3! Anything but that! I promise officer, I won't do it again."

Prison sounds more like a reward than punishment.

Answer 4

How often do you read of a crime being committed, the local community saying how shocked they are and the police then facing a wall of silence. The ball is in the hands of us, the police can only act on evidence and can be so tied down by walls of silence that they can not do the "small time" incidents Matters or not helped by red tape

Answer 5

I appreciate what you are saying but I am more inclined to say the courts are too soft on anti-social behaviour, particularly when it involves a youth.

A minority of todays youth has little respect. It starts with how they are brought up by their parents. Lack of court action only signals that they can be anti-social and commit offences with little or no penalty.

I've lost count of the number of people I've locked up. Then spent hours taking statements and completing files, for the courts to dish out the most lenient of punishments. I'm as frustrated as you believe me.

Answer 6

What about big yobs who are allowed to beat up someone because they are of a different colour or religion to them?

Answer 7

People need to help the police get dispersal orders.
If theres still a problem its time the army got involved.

Answer 8

They allow it because thanks to the goverment and political correctness and our poor justice system there really isn't much they can do about it. I'm only 22 but when i was a kid i wouldn't have dared do anything like what seems to be going on these days (OMG i sound like my dad).