Last week we heard the story of an appearance by Justin Bieber being canned because police were concerned for the safety of the 5000 or so crowd of mostly unsupervised 13,14 & 15 year old girls. A vast majority of these girls had been dropped off by their parents in the early hours of the morning (ie just after midnight in alot of cases) and left to fend for themselves in the city as they awaited a glimpse of their idol. Girls who, when asked by police numerous times to stop pushing and surging forward to prevent injuries, basically ignored their requests and in many reported cases told the police where to shove it. Girls who, when the appearance was cancelled, went ballistic and blamed the police for being party poopers.
This week we hear the story of the magistrate who deemed the word "prick" to be inoffensive and a part of our modern day vocabulary and hence dismissed a claim against a young man who hurled this obscenity at a police officer who was simply doing his job.
Is it any wonder that the police don't sweat the small stuff, as one former top cop reported today, as why would they bother when they are dealing with both soft magistrates and belligerent youth. Whatever happened to respect? You may not like being pulled over for a breath test or being asked to move along in the interests of your and the people around you's safety but what kind of society are we becoming? I was brought up to respect the police and the job they do but I worry about the world we will be living in when my little girls are teenagers and the police are well and truly over it. We need to restore respect in our youth but I am not sure how we would go about that. I guess we need to start with the parents but if the majority of Justin Bieber fans' parents are anything to go by, what hope have we? Any thoughts?
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