Two teens allegedly assault three people at Canberra Centre

Can we start charging the parents to? Statistically speaking they’re probably committing another crime anyway…

No place that ever gives itself over to woke libertarianism gets away with it. San Francisco: sh*t hole. Portland: sh*t hole. L.A: sh*t hole. And on and on and on I could go.

That Canberra thinks that it can buck the trend, is just the kind of thing that it would think.

There is another conversation that needs to happen about people’s rights and Housing ACT (HACT) criteria. Are most people aware that Hosuing does not do a working with children or vulnerable people check or a police check for current offences when they give someone a home? In effect they hand offenders a public asset, a home for life; its almost impossible for HACT to get a successful brief up to ACAT and get an eviction for anything other than unpaid rent! why this is, apart from poor laws and policies – like HACT staff competencies/resources is another issue. HACT then place recidivist criminals with vulnerable sick elderly people and with families with minors in now mostly apartment complexes where people have no choice but to live in close proximity to each other. If these checks are required for many employment positions surely no reasonable voting citizen could object to these checks for housing. Housing may be a human right but vulnerable people without criminal records are potential victims of these recidivist and addicts and they should not be given a home in the same complexes. It’s also just common sense. In effect women and children without addictions or criminal addictions are regularly told a home with shared common spaces like car parks etc with a criminal of assault is a legitimate offer they have to accept. what is HACT duty of care here?

Dreadful but props to the people who confronted their behaviour, even if it didn’t end well.

When I contacted Rachel Stephen-Smith about how many people had been criminalised in the ACT the year before decriminalisation it was 7 persons. She didn’t expand on the quantity of drugs, previous history, conditions of liberty, but seven people went forward to the courts. That was the big arguments for decriminalisation – we were getting people caught in a cycle of criminality, despite figures that through existing diversion laws between 2019 and 2022 over 200 people avoided any conviction for possession of small quantities alone. This year we have had minimum (coroner’s still finalising a few matters) over 20 overdose deaths. Yes, over 20.

Dealers have resorted to using under 14’s to transport and traffic drugs as they can’t be charged. We have underage persons getting drugs pill tested to then pass back to be sold on the market. What a mess. The cart before the horse with no real thought on how things would play out. Any wonder without anti-consorting laws why all the Bikie gangs are locating to Canberra? All those pesky risk mitigations avoided by pushing this through as a private member’s bill that Rachel Stephen-Smith boasted about avoiding and having the legislation introduced quicker down at a Labor conference in Melbourne are well and truly coming home to roost. Blood on their hands.

The CBD used to be safer than Woden for shopping, but it sounds like it too has descended into a place to be avoided.

I think what we need is to build a large Youth DC right next to the AMC. The current system is BS and isnt working. I also agree parents should be held accountable for the actions of their (minors) childrens actions.

More little punks on the street showing no remorse because they know the revolving door of bail laws will spit them back out into the populace. Thanks Greens

It is like Lord of the Flies most days here in the CBD. With so many people either busy at work, or not in the CBD, they just don’t have any clue how bad it is. Since Xmas, I’ve seen ambos come to resuscitate drug users more than ten times – people just passed out in the open, blokes lounging in the sun on the middle of the pavement wearing nothing, there is open dealing in the city (Hamsterdam!), the whistles (prison signalling) are constant, the fights, Westfield has closed many exits to reduce rip-and-run shoplifting by eshays, the increase in private security, little orange needle caps and syringes on pavements everywhere and park bushes full of them… it’s like Oaks Estate moved to the CBD, and the government’s steely neglect and denial came with it. And somehow, it’s not a public issue or a public concern.

You get what you vote for.

Why are so many, including juveniles getting away with bond, sometimes seriously and repeatedly offences, and only getting a slap on the wrist? The police are frustrated enough without the courts just doing this. Is this a simple case of politics interfering with legal procedures, which we all know should not be occurring at all? Or is it the Labor Government simply brown nosing everyone with their ideals? I know come the ACT elections I’m going to test that and see what the alternatives can offer, because justice in the ACT currently, is shite, mainly for any victims, whilst those that offend just get a slap on the wrist. Again, and again, and again……