Behind every stolen vehicle is a policy failure, whether in law enforcement, judicial practice, or social welfare, that reduces the cost of crime and amplifies its rewards.

When youth crime becomes a career, the cure is not diversion but deterrence, a principle grounded in clear cause and effect, personal accountability, and the unyielding enforcement of law. Anything less condemns society to ongoing cycles of victimisation and disorder.

Public safety isn’t improved by indulging the myth that all violence is preventable through kindness. It’s improved when the violent are stopped early, firmly, and lawfully. We don’t keep communities safe by speaking softly to the violent. We do it by ensuring they know, without doubt, that violence will be met with greater force and zero tolerance. In the real world, peace isn’t maintained by those who talk best. It’s maintained by those who stand firm.

It’s no accident that the most successful suburban renewal projects around the world start not with speeches, but with sanitation. Not with community roundtables, but with cleanups, evictions, enforcement, and order. There is no safe path to rehabilitation that runs through public lawlessness. There is no justice in allowing chaos to fester for the sake of optics.

Good intentions cannot justify ignorance or overlook harmful outcomes.