The meeting of community members, businesses and concerned employees, which was called to address the long running issue regarding antisocial behaviour around the Rutherford shopping centre, has produced no solution to the problem and as long as politicians at all levels continue to play politics with the issue there won't be any improvement or solution to the problem which isn't confined to just Rutherford shopping precinct!
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The poll result published in the Mercury on Friday, June 20, 2014, gives a clear picture how divided people's opinions are. At the same time they're all correct because no one alone is to blame.
We all play a part in the way society has developed.
The reasons why some of our youth behave the way they do is because society as a whole has allowed it.
We elect politicians to govern the country to legislate laws that are fair and just for all, but at the same time allow enough individual choice for people to operate within the law.
If we are serious about eradicating antisocial behaviour the parenting laws have to be changed.
Not every parent has the qualifications of a psychologist in order to correct their children without losing their cool sometimes, and it's not fair that they (the parents) are punished for trying to discipline their offspring the best way they know how (without belting them, of course).
This is a problem that has been around for a long time and getting worse way too fast, so the sooner authorities get fair dinkum about it the better off society is going to be.
Salvatore Cocco, Rutherford