Melbourne Crime Crisis

[mellie]

The doors swing open at a children’s courtroom in Melbourne and a stream of young offenders walk through parading Gucci jackets and shiny watches.

They slump in the front row as their heinous, violent crimes are read out. Home invasions, carjackings with machetes, police chases at more than 200km/h, threats to kill, unprovoked assaults.

They are the faces of the city’s youth crime wave, one that has spiralled so far out of control that Melbourne was this week compared to Johannesburg and Cape Town by a morning talkback host.

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News.com.au this week watched as bail was granted to violent offenders inside Melbourne’s children’s courts despite police pleading to keep them remanded.

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The Victorian Government overhauled bail laws earlier this year to make detention no longer a “last resort” for magistrates.

The National Children’s Commissioner Anne Hollands condemned the move, saying it would not make communities safer.

“Locking up these children does not rehabilitate them. It costs $1.3m per annum to lock up a child, and this is not making our community safer,” she said.

Full article ... https://www.news.com.au/national/victor ... 8cecf559e8

What's the answer?

The answer?

Military boarding schools, purpose built for juvenile offenders where a rotation of Military personnel trained to work with rough and discarded delinquents take control of the facilities and it's pupils.

Of course these facilities wouldn't be suitable for the deeply disturbed child offenders who have committed the more twisted crimes, but I think the trick is to get them to Military schools before they are beyond reach. First time offenders should be sent to Military schools, because their chances of rehabilitation in their existing communities after having been bailed are low, particularly those of a certain socio-economic profile.

We need to stop and think about what's more important.
The future of our state, or another football stadium?

Does it suprise any of you that an entrenched Labor state and federal government would provide the optimal breeding ground for wayward delinquents?


This is their agenda afterall to install a Marxist state.

Step one is to demonstrate how the current system has failed it's citizens, but somehow they've forgotten that it doesn't count if it's them that caused the chaos and discord to begin with .

[mellie]

Why not do a trial?

See if Military boarding schools with the potential to give these kids a fighting chance at life on the right side of the tracks can work?
State of the art technology, learning resources, opportunities to gain automatic entry into the Australian armed forces when they come of age.
The parents of these kids are usually incapable if taking care of themselves much less these kids, or are decent parents ( well, appear to be) at their wits end and don't have any solutions themselves. .... These kids need tailored conduct and behaviour modification programs, psychiatrists , ran by qualified personnel, professionals, not prison officers and a revolving door of crummy counsellors and guidance officers who've done a quicky tafe course ( community services or psychology 101) and aren't even invested in these kids futures, and could care less once they've clocked-out from their shifts and get paid their rubbish penalties.

To turn a child's life around and do it like we mean it means doing much more than we are at present.

We need targeted programs to scope these kids out before they've completely wrecked theirs or someone else's lives, rather than continuing to invest in decrepit overcrowded youth prisons which routinely cultivate adult offenders who leave worse than what they were when they arrived.

The Victorian state Labor government should consider sending offenders interstate to purpose built Military boarding schools.
There's no money left to build/trial these sorts of facilities here, we are flat out maintaining our mainstream public schools.

We need to admit we've failed , and have let Victorians down.

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Crime statistics from ABS

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Data about alleged offenders proceeded against by police, including demographic, most serious offence, and family and domestic violence information.
Reference period 2023-24 financial year

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link for above

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/peopl ... e#victoria

[Bobby]

He's a sovereign citizen nutter.

One of the cops was due to retire next week.

Apparently there are 450 cops looking for this guy -
and many of them are putting their lives in jeopardy from
the extreme weather conditions:

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/nort ... unt-buller

Mount Buller summit

Temperature -1.2 C
feels like -17.4 C
North East for Friday. Cloudy. Very high chance of rain, with possible small hail in the evening.
Snow falling above 700 metres.
The chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening.
Damaging winds possible in the N. Winds N 25 to 35 km/h
turning NW 25 to 40 km/h in the early afternoon.

The wet weather, and high winds could cause hypothermia in a few hours.
That can be fatal.

[Black Orchid]

He's a sovereign citizen nutter.

One of the cops was due to retire next week.

Apparently there are 450 cops looking for this guy -
and many of them are putting their lives in jeopardy from
the extreme weather conditions:

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/nort ... unt-buller

Mount Buller summit

Temperature -1.2 C
feels like -17.4 C
North East for Friday. Cloudy. Very high chance of rain, with possible small hail in the evening.
Snow falling above 700 metres.
The chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and evening.
Damaging winds possible in the N. Winds N 25 to 35 km/h
turning NW 25 to 40 km/h in the early afternoon.

The wet weather, and high winds could cause hypothermia in a few hours.
That can be fatal.

Hopefully it will be ... for Freeman!

[Bobby]

Hopefully it will be ... for Freeman!

Unless he has found shelter in a cave and has some hot food
by using say a small gas Primus stove and some tinned food -
and a change into dry clothes he will be dead.
He could have prepared all that – but we don't know.

[Black Orchid]

Albo got run out of Ballarat by angry farmers on their tractors.

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Albo got run out of Ballarat by angry farmers on their tractors.

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Unless he has found shelter in a cave and has some hot food
by using say a small gas Primus stove and some tinned food -
and a change into dry clothes he will be dead.
He could have prepared all that – but we don't know.

He doesn't really need hot food and fire in this climate unless he plans to stay in hideout for fairly long time, dry food like fruit&nut trail mix and biltong or jerky would be enough as long as there is fresh water.

Apparently there are 450 cops looking for this guy

For how long can police sustain this level of effort?
Also, does Victorian police use experience trackers with dogs and/or drones with thermal detection capabilities?

At the end it will come to Philby's psychological fortitude. Is he capable to stay inactive for prolong time without doing something stupid? I don't think he can.