Stealing to eat

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2679516/People-are-so-p...

THE SUN'S focus on our fractured society today looks at an area where almost half the locals are jobless and where feral kids roam the streets.
As the political parties promise to tackle Broken Britain, this week we are visiting blackspots where the benefit culture, crime, drugs or poverty are the norm. Today, Newtown, Birmingham.
SHOPKEEPER Basharat Ali's eyes widen as he describes the mini crime wave that recently swept his Costcutter store.
There was the stabbing, then the gang who tried to "rush" the shop and the teen girl who used him as a shield while another girl attacked her with a knife.

This is the same local council area that caused a mother to set fire to herself & her daughter as a drect result of anti-social behaviour, but at the same time the problems that have been highlighted in Birmingham can be found on any street corner in any UK town.

In England, almost 600,000 children skip lessons every day. Boys aged ten to 16 commit 40 per cent of all street crime, 25 per cent of burglaries, 20 per cent of criminal damage and one third of car thefts - all during school hours.

The government's reponse to this is simple.
The Tories have pledged more cops on the street and to restore discipline in schools.
PM Gordon Brown has announced plans to combat 50,000 of "the most chaotic families" with an increase in Family Intervention Projects.
They require parents of kids guilty of anti-social behaviour to accept one-to-one support or lose benefits.

Yet how about we stop simply skirting around issues a high number of people in the uk are getting sick of the weak laws poor sentences & ridiculous level of those not entitled to receiving benefits that we the working people of England pick up the bill for there benefit legal aid & what do we get from the government nothing, is it any wonder most people on forums have lost faith with the law. I for one have been a victim of anto-social behaviour from a group of 3 15-17 year olds who smashed up my garden after having it done for a childs birthday party, on contacting the police I was told an officer would be round within 48 hours for a statement & do I want a crime number that was it!!! no other action & it was over 72 hours before an officer came.

I have spoken to several of my neighbours who all work & the response is the same we have worked hard for everything we have & we are sick of the gangs stealing & damaging our property, a few have even said that if the gang was attacking them they would fight back even though that would brand us as the "CRIMINAL" in the eyes of those soft bleeding hearts who say the gangs need understanding, take it from a group of people who have had enough anymore & we fight back the police are powerless we need action from our government not more soft initiatives.

What are your thoughts I know a vigilainty approach is wrong but when people are pressed & they feel as they are not supported it is sadly an approach that a lot of us see coming!!