Lastly, if drivers were to follow the two-second rule, then they might see a pothole sooner and possibly steer around it.
Peter Layne
Brookfield
Change at grassroots-level needed
I see, without surprise, that an Auckland jewellery store suffered its fifth raid and another service station was broken into.
Minimising consequences will always allow the worst in folks to be realised and we’ve successfully done that over the last few years.
If parenting is reduced to simply food and shelter, and morality, respect and integrity are not modelled and instilled, then it’s pretty hard to see great future outcomes.
The police and courts are really just an ambulance and while prison sentences can be seen to be unduly harsh, even draconian, they provide a relief to the public and a shock to the miscreant.
No harsher punishment, no counselling, boot camps or extra policing will change these statistics majorly until a fundament change at the grassroots-level happens - that is, in the home. Sadly it’s perhaps an unobtainable goal now.
John Williams
Ngongotahā
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