I read with interest Paul Bell’s complaint of break and enters occurring on a frequent basis at the cafe within the East Maitland City Library (Maitland Mercury, March 17, 2010).
The number of break and enters this building has experienced, as Mr Bell has indicated, would normally, in a society that treated their criminals with the contempt they deserve, rather than excuse their behaviour as “victims” of society, give pause to our law enforcement officials.
Sadly, the explosion of criminal enterprise has been on a steady rise since the Young Offenders Act was first introduced during the late 1990s.
Anyone under the age of 18 and particularly under 14 years of age, are now treated as victims while the real victims of their crimes going unnoticed.
Our authorities, in their eagerness to keep young offenders out of the court system, and from travelling the long road to the “Big House”, completely ignore the damage that not holding offenders responsible for their actions is now causing to the very fabric of the society that we all have to inhabit.
The result of that damage is that business owners trying to make an honest living now have to bear the brunt of a failed criminal policy that is more to do with protecting the criminal than in providing protection for honest members of society such as Mr Bell.
Not only has the Young Offenders Act failed as a deterrent in keeping young offenders from recommitting crime, it is a guarantee that anyone coming under the Act will be given three strikes at most crimes before they even get to face Court, and usually Children’s Court which has no deterrent value at all for the committed young criminal.
The Young Offenders Act is a farce and needs to be repealed.
All young offenders need to be taught a lesson, after all, that is how we all learn to cope with life, that lesson should include being held accountable for their actions for which they must be made to make reparation to the victims of their crimes.
There is no such thing as a victimless crime which progressives would have us believe, as all crime in its many forms affects our society in way or another.
One of the goals of the Australian Protectionist Party is to hold those people, who wish to push the boundaries of criminality within society, as personally accountable for their actions by ensuring that the burglar, who commits and is found guilty of a break and entering offence, particularly against residences and businesses, gets to serve the full 14 years jail time, as recommended under the Crimes Act of 1900, that they so rightly deserve, not the three to six months that are now handed out to them by a system that has lost its spine to provide what should be, a guaranteed protection for us all.
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