Something needs to be done NOW [expanded] (Young Offenders - What Should The Law Do With Them?)

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Product:	Young Offenders - What Should The Law Do With Them?
Date:	01/11/00 (39 review reads)
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Advantages: what advantages?

Disadvantages: I'd be here all day...

I have the misfortune of living in an unpleasant part of Liverpool where youth crime is rife. Quite simply, the area is not safe from teenage yobs (and younger!) who infest the streets.

Some examples - due to the amount of off-licences and stores that sell booze, kids DEMAND that you go into them to buy it for them (manners!). Yound girls demand money with menace. When replied that I was "skint" I was told that (you)"... better check again or I'll get xxxxxx to sort you out..." Begging is bad news here - today (halloween tea time) I witnessed kids throw eggs at people who refused to give to "penny for a guy" kids (thugs). This was outside a branch of "Iceland" - who proberably sold them the eggs in the first place. I won't go into the matter of the cat that was killed for fun.

Update - Tonight was "bonfire night", which was extremely disturbing. The local kids in my front setting off all finds of fireworks. Naturally, they didn't clear up after themselves - apart from what ended up through my letterbox. Luckily [I suppose] my cat was scared stiff, she proberably would have made a dive for whatever came through the letterbox and who knows what might have happened.

I could go on and on. There are far too many do-gooders out there - it is they who are caused the trouble and it is we who have to suffer the hands of the children. What are the schools teaching kids these days? That is, the ones that actually go to school instead of whatever they get upto making life hell for the rest of us.

Theft, arson, assault, terror. A normal day for some kids - I knopw it's not just Liverpool but it is out of hand here.

A hint for the police - when someone calls you about kids breaking into somewhere are assaulting them, do something about it, okay? Lock them up. Keep them locked up, ideally, throw away the key.

The age of "criminal responsiblity
" is ten-years-of-age. There are kids I've encounted who are so hard-faced they know the law and know they'll get away with it. Not that lowering the age would do anything as nothing is seemingly done about youth crime.

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