It sucks and I’m sorry to hear that.
It’s getting worse and worse and I don’t know if the changes they made or going to make are going to make anything better.
Nothing worse than not feeling safe at home.
Comment on Discussion Thread: Friday, 21 March 2025
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Looking after hambam this w/e.
Little cousin’s car was stolen when she was looking after him recently and the place next door was done too. They entered the place (she was alone) and demanded keys. So none of aunt’s grandkids are (very understandably) keen on looking after him so doggo is stuck with me again.
These little thieving cunts are just in it for joyriding completely unaware (or are they) of the trauma they leave.
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 week ago
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I doubt the changes they are making will make anything better, if anything it will make the problem worse.
The problem seems to be kids, and its pretty rare to get kids from decent homes & upbringings doing that type of stuff. Almost always they will have their own history of trauma and it is likely that feeling safe in their own home is something they have never experienced for themselves. They get dumped into underfunded child protection system that often exacerbates the problems instead of really helping, and puts them in contact with other troubled kids where they band together into gangs that may be the closest thing to family and safety they can get. Putting them in juvenile detention just makes that issue worse and solidifies criminal activity as a life course instead of a life phase they may be able to get over.
In a lot of ways this sort of offending is the canary in the coal mine for problems in society as a whole. There will always be some dodgy individuals that choose to do the wrong thing, but when it is a rising tide like this you really need to look at how your whole society is working and make changes there if you want to fix things. Unfortunately part of the social problems that cause this (in my opinion) is a general callousness towards individuals and unwillingness to pay for “soft” solutions like improving education, access to food and housing, counselling services etc. Instead we want “hard on crime” options of locking people up (generally at much greater expense) and then we wonder why we end up with hardened criminals.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Plenty of rich kids with heaps of opportunities wind up being absolute criminal shits with no respect for society. It may skew towards the ignored kids of meth heads but it’s far from exclusive.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 week ago
There are always going to be some people who choose to do the wrong thing no matter what, but there are a far larger number that could go either way.
It’s also not just a matter of rich or poor - rich parents can be shit, poor parents can be great. And no matter what your own parents are like the wider society has a massive impact - that ignored kid of meth heads could have extended family that care for them and support from the wider community to make better choices themselves and that will make a huge difference. Or you might have a decent family, who have some sort of bad luck - maybe a disabilty or death in the family - and without social support that situation can snowball. Maybe the parent can’t work, so they lose housing, which leads to the kids being taken off them and put in foster care, with all the problems associated with that, broken schooling etc.
I used to work for Legal Aid in the Children’s Court section and there were almost no kids that had criminal issues without having child protection issues first.
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 week ago
My bro was broken into earlier this week. Took the bowl of keys that was on the bench, and two of their cars while they slept. The violation of their home as their safe space has me feeling all kinds of things.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Jeez that’s rough.
I suppose it’s whether you just leave the keys out or hide them but risk confrontation. Still not sure about that one.
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 week ago
We’re going with the thoughts that they’re just cars and at the end of the day the people and pets are safe. The cars may not be seen again (just because of what they are) and everything else has been re-keyed and coded. But the weekend plans are off, and the adult teenager doesn’t want to be home alone, even though his is the only car that’s left on the property. Sort of grateful that their dog didn’t wake up or bark at the time, because who knows what may have been.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 week ago
A friend is trying to get rid of his manual lancer but doesn’t want to deal with the sales process.