I blame the government myself..... I mean we've had political correctness shoved down our throats for over a decade, anti "smacking" campaigns etc and this originally created a fear of being perceived as "wrong" for having certain attitudes towards yoof and so folks backed off and let the yoof get on with doing whatever the feck they liked and now the fear is of the yoof themselves.
A sad reflection on today's society. If you do get involved with youths being anti-social, you get arrested by the police working on behalf of the youths, or stabbed by the youths themselves.
As a result, people don't get involved anymore.
What i'd like to see is police on the streets searching people. If you have a knife on you off to prison you go, no excuses.
Obviously there are exceptions (chefs for example) and there would need to be a healthy dose of common sense involved in the arrests, but in pronciple, I agree. It would go a long way to rehabilitating the kids.
Anthony
