A police van with lights and sirens blazing, travelling through a red light at a busy Cairns intersection, overturned after colliding with a Falcon sedan on Saturday.
The accident follows another, nine days before, involving a police four wheel drive which collided with an elderly pedestrian who later died in hospital.
While juvenile crime is out of control understaffed police stations are trying to cope with more callouts than they can handle, many involving domestic violence and out of control mainly Aboriginal and white youths stealing on average three cars a day in the Cairns area.
Five youths in three stolen late model cars terrorised parts of Cairns rampaging through suburban streets and main thoroughfares taunting police who were unable to give chase due to public safety risks.
District Superintendent Mick Searle said about 60 officers and two helicopters were involved in tracking the alleged offenders over a 12-hour period on Wednesday.
He said police received more than 130 calls from concerned members of the public, but defended the decision not to actively pursue the vehicles.
“I know there’s commentary around why weren’t we chasing cars yesterday. There are clear reasons for that,” Superintendent Searle said.
“Chases usually result in one of two things: a crash or some cornered offenders dumping a car in a really dangerous circumstance, which can also cause harm and injury to others.
Both the Cairns and Townsville-based police helicopters tracked the cars for several hours before officers used tyre spikes to stop one of the vehicles around 3pm on Wednesday.
Four boys were arrested with the help of the dog squad shortly after, while an 18-year-old was taken into custody later in the day.
Such is the increasing juvenile crime rate in Queensland that elderly residents in the Far North are locking themselves in their homes too frightened to go out after being confronted with car-jackings, robberies and knife attacks occurring almost every day.
Youths have been breaking into homes regardless of the occupants being present or not, stealing car keys and other valuables while armed with knives or other weapons.
Leader of Katters Australian Party Robbie Katter says enough is enough. “Why hasn’t the LNP Government supported the largest petition ever presented in this state calling for Castle Law which gives home occupants the right to defend themselves by any means during these often violent home invasions?”
“The people have already spoken don’t want another survey. They want action.”
Mr Katter said KAP had been pushing relocation sentencing and stronger consequences for repeat offenders long before both major parties caught up to the crisis.
“KAP put relocation sentencing on the table years ago because regional communities were already begging for intervention before more young lives and more victims were created,” he said.
“And here’s the reality nobody wants to admit – the detention centres are already overflowing.
“So, if the government is serious about stopping repeat offending and reforming these kids, then they need a different approach.
“KAP has already put the solution on the table.
“Relocation sentencing gets repeat offenders out of the same destructive environments, away from the same influences and into structured environments where they can be rehabilitated.
“Castle Law provides a real deterrent.”
Puff ,your lawyer will be very happy to defend you until you run out of money to pay him so go and buy a short pneumatic speargun and remove the tip and screw on a golf ball for their next visit and in the meantime you can practise on your rubbish bins
Governments are powerless to keep the kids in line but have no trouble keeping their parents from leaving home and going to work and bashing them if they object? And now some fools want to make parents responsible for kids’ actions after the governments castrated the parents and killed parental control with kids’ privacy rights? Really?
Too much revenue chasing rather than policing is why
There is a petition on the Qld parliament website to make the parents of these underage criminals responsible for their rugrat’s sociopathic behaviour:
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/petition-details/4550-26
Please, don’t use the term “domestic violence” with a straight face or group it with crimes. DV is a subject mired in intellectual dishonesty and more often than not describes non violent “behaviour,” nothing more. It’s a political construct brought to us by the radical harridans and all too warmly embraced by corrupt lawyers and magistrates for financial and professional gain.
I should add…The meth addict tried kicking my door in again 3 weeks later just after I went to the police station to report that he had spent almost the entire three weeks across the road where his kids lived, clearly stalking me. He had bail conditions not come near me or the house by 200 metres, he was caught red-handed by my neighbour trying to kick in the door, she rang the police and they came an hour or so later, surrounded the house and got him, locked him for two months…which was then counted as time served for his crime and he got no more gaol time whatsoever…They are getting away with their crimes! None of the other six got any gaol time at all. Most didn’t even get charged with anything. ORDO-AB-CHAO…
I had a meth addict attack my front door, chasing me, with a sledgehammer. I was going to put him down with my wood splitter if he got through the door…more idiots joined in, six of them, smashed all the front windows, I didn’t know who they were, so I got out of there, I didn’t think to do that at first, just stand my ground and defend myself was all I thought I could do.
I ended up with a lawyer over that and he told me to just kill him next time if he tries that again, as he was clearly a problem and a stalker, as the lawyer will defend me and I won’t go to gaol.
Worst part was wondering if I would get into trouble for hitting him in the head with a wood splitter…it was my home, not his, he was trying to invade my home so he should wear whatever happens, even his death. I got a really good quality set of HD/Infra red security cameras professionally installed through victims of crime. Nothing has happened ever since.
That was 2019. It isn’t easy making those decisions on the fly like that!
If there was enough police to keep 27 million people locked up in their homes for two years, and to forcibly ‘quell’ peaceful protesters, then why can’t they find enough to send to these crime-ridden areas? No kick-backs in it!
Also, every State built detention centres for people who had the hide to stand up for their basic human rights. They could use those to detain and retrain these out-of-control youths.
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Solution: Shoot the fkers.
A “structured environment where they could be rehabilitated” would be a chain gang
It seems that the Cops aren’t much good at high speed pursuit so I suggest they employ ambulance drivers who have a far better track record of veering in and out of traffic without coming to grief .
Shoot a few of them, simple! They will quickly “understand”!
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