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Re: Some days you just want to buy a gun
Yeah. Kids with spraypaint. Even with all the locked cabinets now at Bunnings and the like they still seem to get hold of it. We have a full time team of graffiti removalists working in our council and they have plenty of work to do. We're now trialling a system of criminal damage charges where the kids need to front up to court and answer to their crimes. We recently had a sting operation in coordination with WA police and went out in unmarked cars overnight to catch them at it and take video / photo evidence. Caught a lot of people of all ages doing it. It only remains to be seen how they'll be treated in the courts and what sorts of punishments they'll get.
We do have a phenomenon here where if you or I see people doing the wrong thing we don't want anything to do with it because we don't want to complicate our lives any more than necessary. Understandable, but the consequence is, amongst other things, that kids get away with graffiti scott free and without consequence.
If someone walks out of the dunny at your work without washing their hands do you say anything?
If someone throws rubbish out the car window at the lights do you say anything? Cigarette butts are a classic.
If you and your 10 mates see a thug beating up his girlfriend, do you intervene?
The consequence of not doing so means these things are allowed to continue. Yet, if you do act on these situations you run the risk of repercussions. You are ganged up on at work, the thug visits your 10 mates with 50 mates..... etc etc..... I suppose you have to choose your battles carefully. It's very frustrating though when you see people doing the wrong thing day after day and nothing happens to them. Is it right to break their fingers? Or is it right to let crime spread throughout the community unchecked?
Yeah. Kids with spraypaint. Even with all the locked cabinets now at Bunnings and the like they still seem to get hold of it. We have a full time team of graffiti removalists working in our council and they have plenty of work to do. We're now trialling a system of criminal damage charges where the kids need to front up to court and answer to their crimes. We recently had a sting operation in coordination with WA police and went out in unmarked cars overnight to catch them at it and take video / photo evidence. Caught a lot of people of all ages doing it. It only remains to be seen how they'll be treated in the courts and what sorts of punishments they'll get.
We do have a phenomenon here where if you or I see people doing the wrong thing we don't want anything to do with it because we don't want to complicate our lives any more than necessary. Understandable, but the consequence is, amongst other things, that kids get away with graffiti scott free and without consequence.
If someone walks out of the dunny at your work without washing their hands do you say anything?
If someone throws rubbish out the car window at the lights do you say anything? Cigarette butts are a classic.
If you and your 10 mates see a thug beating up his girlfriend, do you intervene?
The consequence of not doing so means these things are allowed to continue. Yet, if you do act on these situations you run the risk of repercussions. You are ganged up on at work, the thug visits your 10 mates with 50 mates..... etc etc..... I suppose you have to choose your battles carefully. It's very frustrating though when you see people doing the wrong thing day after day and nothing happens to them. Is it right to break their fingers? Or is it right to let crime spread throughout the community unchecked?
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