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[ElwoodBlues1]

Trying to ignite another round of "I'm tougher on crime than you are" isn't conducive to good public policy. And trying to re-ignite the African gangs campaign is certainly not in the public interest.

Trying to tie the can around the necks of an identifiable segment of the population is guaranteed to cause "unintended" harm to that segment of the population. We've seen that over in the US. Trump blamed the Chinese for Covid and Tucker Carlson and the other Fox News arseholes tried to weaponise the replacement theory: that non-whites were trying to boost their numbers in the US so they could take over from real Americans (i.e. white guys).

But credit where it's due. A lot of seriously dangerous people had some heat put on them. An 84 year old Thai-American was slammed to the ground and killed. An elderly Asian woman was punched repeatedly. The Buffalo shooter published a manifesto parroting the great replacement theory before gunning down 10 Black Americans at a supermarket. Who knows what havoc those killings prevented ...

One election later, the lessons from Melbourne’s ‘African gang’ panic, The Age, 23/11/21.
I hope the racist arseholes are torn a new one this election as well.

Doesnt matter what colour you are, you cant go around breaking into peoples home, terrorising them and then expecting to get off because you are under age and using your racial background as an excuse for a free pass.
These kids will be badly hurt one day even fatally, they will pick the wrong house, with the wrong people who will fight back and it will be like South Africa or America and we dont want Australia descending into that type of society.
Gangs of any variety attacking people anywhere need stopping now and harsh deterrents applied..