Comment on ‘Something doesn’t add up’: the small Queensland town united in its fight against speed camera fines
rainynight65@feddit.de 10 months agoI have zero doubt that youth crime is a problem in many places, and I am certain that a lot of speed enforcement is purely revenue-generating. I simply bristle at reductive statements from politicians like Knuth who only have complaints and no plans. Both of these issues are non-trivial to address, but nobody wants to hear about complexities, because that means change will take time. They just want things to change now, and that’s not happening.
abhibeckert@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Yeah see that’s exactly what gets everyone worked up. Youth detention centres are so overcrowded it’s almost certainly a breach of human rights to send any kid there. And the crimes the kids are committing are even more unacceptable than that.
This absolutely should be dealt with now. The people in those towns want the state premier (not just a random politician from a minor party) to drop whatever she’s doing and deal with this. Now. Right now. But instead we get speed cameras that don’t even work properly.
rainynight65@feddit.de 10 months ago
So what do you imagine the state premier and government can do to address the problem right now, that will bring meaningful change in a short time?