What will it take to stop the scumbags?

[pauljh74]

I thought I'd make a new thread rather than hijack the thread dedicated to the slain policeman. Just that it seems the law just lets the real crooks go too often. A case which unfolded almost on my front doorstep over these last 24 hours is what I'm referring to.

Last night I heard some yelling and something being smashed, so I opened the front door to have a look as I thought it was kids vandalising stuff when I saw my neighbour's (adult) son being escorted away by 2 cops. I didn't hear anything before this and was about to run out to get a look at what I thought was kids. He was in an agitated state and was the aggressor harrassing his own Mum - who I heard had kicked him out in Feb. So this was midnight Sunday night.

Then today at around midday he came back and there was a bunch of yelling to the point where I thought he was getting out of control and was about to call the cops. But at this point I heard the woman's partner/friend etc outside my window on the phone to the cops. The son had been yelling and throwing stuff both in and outside the house for almost an hour before the cops showed up (25 mins after the call was made). So the cops take him away again at 1pm and I heard the woman telling the cops that he's done it a few times already since she kicked him out - he gets drunk and comes over and abuses her. I heard her say he punched a hole in the wall and was carrying a knife. She was really scared of him.

What absolutely amazed me was that come 5pm, he turned up AGAIN on his own to get his car. Fair enough, he needed to get his car, but I would have expected the police to drop him off and make sure he causes no trouble. As it was he yelled some obscenities out the car window, drove really fast out the driveway of the estate. Then he dropped a big burnout and tore off up the road. So he still wasn't playing nice.

If we have laws that allow for cops to take cars away from people "hooning", and such vigilant enforcement on infringements no more serious than civil disobedience, then why the hell does the law let this guy, who has been threatening his own mother twice in 12 hours, not only walk away within a few hours of arrest, but freely come within 10 metres of the house after the first 2 incidents?