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Originally Posted by TSR  to be fair, she did say for repeat offenders
"a taste of their own medicine" is an horrifically bad way to promote this - her PR skills should be ashamed
"repeat offenders will be stalked by marked police officers so that they have to think before acting"
if CCTV was everywhere and it was CCTV being used instead of marked officers to track the people, would people have lesser objections? |
You're essentially advocating that 'repeat offenders' are
spied on? Sure, there's nothing remotely authoritarian about that at all.
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Originally Posted by TSR at least they're trying and thinking. what would you do to tackle anti-social behavior? |
Great, we should give them points for
effort.
Why not try to identify and address root causes of said anti-social behaviour, rather than shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted? One of which you could say would be those in authority taking on board attitudes which effective alienate young people from the wider community at large, as this particular measure is likely to.
That's not even bringing up the fact that "anti-social behaviour" in itself is a fairly recent, and vague term which, whilst including things like aggressive behaviour and vandalism (as if they aren't covered by any other laws), seems to me to be mainly geared towards targeting those who are merely perceived to be a 'nuisance' more than anything else in specific.
