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.

The curfew works not because it eliminates all crime, but because it restores a barrier, temporal, social, and legal, between order and chaos. It tells young people, clearly, this place is no longer yours at this hour. That clarity, far from punitive, is protective. It offers young minds a line not to cross. And for many, that line is the only thing keeping them from a criminal record, or worse, a coroner’s report.

Zero tolerance is not about authoritarianism. It’s about clarity. It communicates to every potential offender, this space is protected, not neglected. It empowers the security guard to act. It tells the public, “We won’t wait until someone bleeds before we intervene.”

And for those who think this mindset is too harsh, too judgemental, or too “unfair,” ask yourself this, do you want to win the moral argument with a knife-wielding addict? Or do you want to make it home to your family? Because criminals don’t argue with your philosophy. They don’t respect your values. They don’t care what’s on your social media profile. They care about whether you’ll fight back. Or better yet, whether you’re just not worth the trouble. So, stop being th

Personality traits alone do not dictate criminal behaviour, but they serve as critical indicators that should not be ignored.