Originally Posted by
RonnieBird
That's a typical and very wrong analysis of the problems.
Just because a kid, or anyone else, thinks it's necessary to carry a knife or other weapon doesn't mean that we have to convince them differently. What we need to convince them of is that doing so will result in severe consequences.
We really can't get involved in their insane and stupid motivations just because they have decided on a course of conduct which is intolerable .
Sentences do deter, but they know there'll be no serious sentences. In a recent case a South London juvenile , ( you'll probably know the case if you're a local reporter in Croydon), went out to Stevenage to do a robbery ,in the course of which he stabbed a police officer and Police Dog Finn, who nearly died. It led to a change in the Law about stabbing police dogs, but the little shit got a supervision order or something for his crimes.
These stupid schemes involving youth clubs , mentors and airy fairy persuasions are exoensive and they've been going on for a long time, but they DO NOT work. How long before every other variety of criminal, such as bank robbers and serial killers are getting a sympathetic ear from the media about their problems and what led them to their crimes ? Shall we also let the Yorkshire Ripper out and send him on a course run by otherwise unemployable violent offenders who are now too old to attack people ?
What about Jihadists who've murdered people in shopping centres and tourist centres ? Shall we send them to an Islamist stamp collecting club or something ?
We hear this bollocks endlessly from the liberal media and chattering classes but in the mean time normal people have to go about their lawful business in areas like South London in fear of being randomly stabbed or caught up in some mindless post code attack.
.....and what happens ? More talk of insufficient youth clubs ..........!