From Christopher Davey.
FOR how much longer, I ask once again, must we continue to cower, while our Island youth – male and female – walks all over us? When, pray, are we going to pass laws to enable our police to deal, in very short order, with these tiresome creatures?
For acting Police Chief David Warcup to have to go publicly admitting that ‘gaps in the law mean that the justice system is unable adequately to deal with persistent trouble-makers because the courts cannot lock them up’ showers shame upon us all. He then goes on to stress that ‘it is a very small minority, and that most teenagers are well-behaved.’ We would expect nothing less; but, presumably, he means that he knows who they are, and where they live.
So come on, you politicians and law-makers, this is a tourist resort, not Baltimore: buck up, get up off your backsides, earn your crust, do your job, let’s get the necessary laws in place, give the health and safety industry a long overdue holiday, and let’s start naming and shaming these youngsters and their feckless parents.
That said, having locked them up, lets start teaching these disappointed kids, whose parents have so utterly failed them, that there is more to life than assault upon the person and property: that it is give-back time, time to start making a contribution to society, time to start living. This is our up-and-coming generation; it is the most important issue of the day.
