Well Lauren, judging by your last few posts it doesn't seem you've got much of a solution yourself other than to sympathise.
Watching citizenship videos ad nauseam , and I mean ad nauseam will help to change their way of thinking.
Not in solitary confinement it doesn't. They'll be too busy learning how to be model citizens and working the crank.
There's plenty of punishment and plenty of rehabilitation all packed into a few short weeks.
OK, I retract the last suggestion. I'll be kind and move it down one to number 9 and insert public flogging in at 8.
I'm not sympathising with gangs, not at all, I can't abide them. I'm just pointing out the current problems that exist with the current approach we have. Going easy on them isn't going to work but neither is your more violent approach either.
Bring back nationalised industries and offer all kids the chance of an apprenticeship with a decent wage and job at the end of it without making them feel like they have more chance of winning the lottery.
Education is the answer. A serious shock education about drugs and what they actually do to the individual and society. Then make them legal from special outlets undercutting illegal suppliers so there's no profit in it.
Legalise prostitution and get rid of pimping.
Make anything Gangsta related seriously uncool on TV and media - first off by not continually promoting it as normal.
They have a very successful economy and society and much safer streets by all accounts so they must be doing something right.
Maybe we can learn something from them.
Really? When i was in China crime was bloody terrifying. We were given a map with red streets on that we were not to go down in any circumstance and at least 2 thirds of the streets were red.
They have a very successful economy and society and much safer streets by all accounts so they must be doing something right.
Maybe we can learn something from them.
You never heard of the Triads then? Of course the difference between them and our homegrown gangs, is that they're all smartly dressed, much more organised and dangerous. China is hardly a model for what our society should be like.
You never heard of the Triads then? Of course the difference between them and our homegrown gangs, is that they're all smartly dressed, much more organised and dangerous. China is hardly a model for what our society should be like.
They have a very successful economy and society and much safer streets by all accounts so they must be doing something right.
Maybe we can learn something from them.
They also censor their citizen's internet use, free speech is non-existent, human rights - forget that! As mentioned, the Triads who are far more organised than any gang in this country, basically a Chinese Mafia.
All in all, China is most definitely not the model of how to run a country. And on this, I definitely agree with Puzzler.
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I'm not sympathising with gangs, not at all, I can't abide them. I'm just pointing out the current problems that exist with the current approach we have. Going easy on them isn't going to work but neither is your more violent approach either.
Kids need hope.
Legalise prostitution and get rid of pimping.
Make anything Gangsta related seriously uncool on TV and media - first off by not continually promoting it as normal.
They have a very successful economy and society and much safer streets by all accounts so they must be doing something right.
Maybe we can learn something from them.
Really? When i was in China crime was bloody terrifying. We were given a map with red streets on that we were not to go down in any circumstance and at least 2 thirds of the streets were red.
They sound rather like City bankers.
They also censor their citizen's internet use, free speech is non-existent, human rights - forget that! As mentioned, the Triads who are far more organised than any gang in this country, basically a Chinese Mafia.
All in all, China is most definitely not the model of how to run a country. And on this, I definitely agree with Puzzler.