Our view: Speak up, heartless vandals need to pay price

The Western Bay of Plenty is often praised for its lifestyle, and not without good reason.
The region is booming, and is blessed with employment options, a sunny climate and abundant recreational opportunities.
Young couples flock here, viewing the Western Bay as a great place to bring up a family.
However, two recent incidents in the Bay force us to contemplate just what sort of community we are becoming.
In the first, reported in yesterday's Bay of Plenty Times, roadside crosses set up in memory of two people who died in a car smash at Maungatapu in 2008, had been deliberately smashed.
Siblings Samantha and Josh Garner, along with 14-year-old Kayla Rose, were killed in the crash and over the past week, crosses erected in memory of Kayla and Josh had been snapped into pieces.
For mother Raewyn Garner, the vandalism adds insult to what is already a traumatic situation.
Having to bury one's own children is every parent's worst nightmare, and in a cruel twist, the vandalism happened just before a poignant anniversary - today would have been Josh's 27th birthday.
Ms Garner and the rest of her family have already suffered enough, and this sort of cruel and petty vandalism is the last thing they need.
In another incident, also reported in yesterday's paper, a vehicle parked at Tauranga RSA had a swastika scratched into it.
The car had all four tyres slashed and was keyed down both sides and across the boot. The Nazi emblem was engraved on the bonnet.
Five other vehicles were also keyed in the attack.
The tyre-slashing and keying is bad enough, but for someone to resurrect the symbolic centrepiece of one of history's darkest periods, particularly in the grounds of an organisation designed to support those who fought for our freedom, is abhorrent.
The people who have carried out these two wanton acts of vandalism have displayed a disturbing lack of empathy.
The onus now falls on the community to take action to help apprehend those responsible.
For some time, police have been running the "See Something, Say Something" campaign, encouraging people to report suspicious behaviour.
The police need the residents of the Bay to support them in preventing crime in our community, and there could be no better start than catching those responsible for these two disgraceful acts.
The crosses were situated next to the busy Maungatapu Roundabout, while the Tauranga RSA sits on the city's main Cameron Rd thoroughfare.
Someone must have seen something, or know something and whoever they are should do the right thing and contact police as soon as possible.