Sounds Familiar
ACT MP Heather Roy tells the story of a teenager who stole the ACT Party Bus, crashed it, and apparently has got away with nothing more than a telling off at a Family Group Conference as no-one follows up whether the actions are completed.
Heather's experience is familiar to me. In 1996, a group of teens broke into my car and were attempting to steal it when the alarm went off. Several people witnessed them jumping out of the car and running away. A police dog tracker team caught one of them shortly afterwards. The local Community Constable told me he knew it was them anyway as witnesses saw three people abscond (he knew them all) and the other two in the area known to be breaking into cars was in the Waitangirua Police Station Cells at the time.
Their punishment was decided at a family group conference - to write a letter of apology to each of the victims of their crime. Ten years later I haven't got that letter.
The car never worked again and ended up at the wreckers as they damaged it so badly trying to crash start it.
Heather's experience is familiar to me. In 1996, a group of teens broke into my car and were attempting to steal it when the alarm went off. Several people witnessed them jumping out of the car and running away. A police dog tracker team caught one of them shortly afterwards. The local Community Constable told me he knew it was them anyway as witnesses saw three people abscond (he knew them all) and the other two in the area known to be breaking into cars was in the Waitangirua Police Station Cells at the time.
Their punishment was decided at a family group conference - to write a letter of apology to each of the victims of their crime. Ten years later I haven't got that letter.
The car never worked again and ended up at the wreckers as they damaged it so badly trying to crash start it.
posted by Michael at
9:27 PM
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The punishment should of been that they had to reimburse the value of the car through community work and a letter of apology to the victim(s).
If they failed to do the community work then I think more puntive action should be taken, i.e. loss of entitlements to benefits, or if they are working the money deducted directly from their wages and paid either to the insurance company or the person.
For those that run up $100,000s in fines then prision.
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