Crime wave has government’s fingerprints
WHY have our city’s streets suddenly become more like a scene from Grand Theft Auto?
Townsville is under siege from criminals who have no place in our society and they have no respect for anyone else or themselves. Our police must be worn out from catching these criminals only to find that the courts have been directed by our government to use locking them up as a last resort. We cannot solve this problem by using the same kind of thinking that created it. Clearly our government has got it wrong with the Youth Justice amendments and I believe it has to immediately order the courts to keep all offenders behind bars and return Townsville to its residents until they have a solution.
We elect governments to keep law and order and make our homes and family safe.
Well, I for one do not feel safe at present with the anarchy that is gripping this town.
Instead the Government wants to place the offenders back in the community in houses in our streets? Whoever is providing the advice for the government needs to be sacked as the crime wave in Townsville has their fingerprints all over it! MICHAEL ABRAHAM
Idalia.
CRIMINALS BEING PUT FIRST
WHAT we’ve seen over the past few days is that the Townsville crime crisis is out of control. Labor’s soft- on- crime approach is putting criminals before community safety. It is by the grace of God that an innocent person wasn’t killed during this most recent crime rampage. Why is the safety of an entire region being put at risk for a small minority who are terrorising our community? Labor has failed Townsville and North Queensland and its new plan to put bail frat houses in our suburbs is another example of just how out of touch this government is. I call on the government to come clean on the location of these bail frat houses. My guess is they won’t be next door to a Labor politician.
Under an LNP Government, “breach of bail” will be reintroduced as an offence for young offenders, a new mandatory community payback scheme will be introduced, we will remove the principle of detention as a last resort for repeat young offenders upon their second offence and the “name and shame three strikes policy” will be reinstated. CASIE SCOTT, LNP candidate for Townsville.