Gold Coast youth crime - What should be done?

"The kids today do not have respect and they do not care about the law, they need to go to boot camp and we should take away their rights"

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In twenty nineteen, a young man, Jack Beasley, went into
Surface with his friends for a night where he was
suggesting that he wasn't going to have a late night
and wasn't going to stay out too late, and then
as the night progressed, he was a victim of a
violent crime and lost his life and his parents lost
their boy. Since then, the Jack Beasley Foundation has been

(00:25):
developed and has grown to help educate young people to
not take weapons out when you're going out and not
to be involved with having weapons on them at all
and the problems that arising with youth crime and what
to do. So it's an education that the Jack Beasley

(00:46):
Foundation is providing young people. They had their Legends lunch
on Friday. But we were lucky enough to speak to
Brett Beasley last week and he was talking to us
about what needs to be done.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
The whole youth justice that daily needs to be completely rewritten.
It is decades old now, it's thirty something years old,
thirty five I think years old. The children then are
not the same children as they are today. So the
legislation back then kids got to kick up the bum

(01:20):
and got put in the bag of a cop can't
take an under their parents, and that was more scary
than anything in the world. The kids that they do
not have respect and they do not care for the law,
and we need to come down on them like a
ton of bricks. They need to go to boot camp.
I did hear Tom Tait mentioned about boot camp, which
one hundred percent backing on that. We need to send

(01:43):
these guys to juvenile justice, juvenile attention, take away all
their rights, take away all their ticktops and all their
socials and everything, and lock them up for a minimum
of twelve months and make them do you know, make
them do courses.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
We're saying so many stabbings on the Gold Coast as
though that it's just a cheap thrill. It seems like
life is cheap compared to what it used to be.
The fact that people just take a knife out and
go I'm going to stab you, and they actually do
it. It's not just a bluff anymore. We're seeing all these
cars getting stolen, people that are breaking the houses while

(02:20):
people are asleep. Youth crime at the moment is its height,
and it seems like nothing's being done. So we're going
to open the phones for you. If you have a
solution or what you think should happen, what needs to
be done, whatever you think, we'd love to hear from
you here at Hot Tomato