We can’t arrest our way out of this. We’re working with other government agencies and non-government agencies to make the system a safer place and better for these children.”
– Superintendent John Hallam is less keen on collaring louts than he is on coddling them
I presume Hallam is speaking about Lovell’s little children, who she died trying to protect.
Reference to any other “children” as victims in this tragedy is simply perverse.
Calli, I searched for other videos and longer quotes in other sources.
Nothing.
He seems to be talking about the “children” in the juvenile justice system – per the ABC link provided.
We can’t arrest our way out of this is now an international canned slogan, by the way.
Quite some crafting to be able to spin it that a concept has agency and deixis such that the need is, ‘to make the system a safer place’.
The law seems much keener to go in hard against those accused of thought crimes or “offensive” social media comments than actual criminals, including very serious offenders, these days.
At least Hallam turned up. Katarina Carroll and Tracy Linford are preoccupied with the Wieambilla case. Apparently.
We can’t arrest our way out of this.
Yes you can. Do your job or resign. Enough of weasel words.
That said frolicking had a similar spiel on Flash Cat from some frumpy looking commissioner. Talking point’s obviously out there.
Shades of Rotherham.
If this were Melbourne I’d make an assumption about the ethnic origins of the home invaders. And I’d be right. But this is Queensland – are they importing any particular kind of Heart of Darkness savages?
Andrews wasn’t afraid to inflict a curfew on all the citizens.
Our premier could bring in her own curfew – all youngsters
Latest:
Teenagers accused of murdering a brave mum and stabbing her husband in horror home invasion were living in a halfway house just metres away – and terrorising the suburb while out on bail.
Earlier…
Here’s the same Superintendent Hallam telling the media the perpetrators were apprehended “through some very good investigative skills demonstrated by the detectives.”
Later: Known to police, all on bail, all in a half-way house around the block.
A halfway house in the same street? So they didn’t come from Zillmere and Holland Park? That always seemed implausible.
Why is it the immediate response of police to lie?
And halfway to where? They were on bail, FFS.
“… some very good investigative skills demonstrated by the detectives.”
LOL.
At least police are providing the full truth about the background to the Wieambilla murders.
These halfway houses need more sunlight though. Bet the residents were mostly unaware of it presence. We recently in Townsville had an NGO caught out trying to get one going, council weren’t forthcoming either. I get the NIMBY concerns but people have a right to know and object. My contribution & particulars on Flash Cat this morning:
“We can’t arrest our way out of this. We’re working with other government agencies and non-government agencies to respect the rights of the protestors and immediately cease all the covid directives and mandates”
I re-read it.
By ‘whole of community’ seems like he is talking about US style ‘second amendment’ rights. What else could the ‘whole of community’ do to defend and protect themselves if this character doesn’t want the perpetrators locked up?
I don’t know the background of the perpetrators but one of these aggravated burglaries was inevitably going to end up with fatalities.
My daughter her husband and eight month old were the victims of one in another Queensland regional town
We do know the perpetrators identified as Aboriginal, and despite the multiple burglaries on the same evening, car theft (written off) speeding etc the only consequence was a restorative justice conference, so no incentive for anything other than more of the same, and they were caught because their fingerprints were in the system so it wasn’t even a first time.
The victims were British-born, heterosexual breeders. In the eyes of the woke left, that means they deserved it.
As most here disagree with this chaps theory the shot would be to run a trial. In the suburb where John Hallam lives no perpetrators of crime committed in that suburb will be arrested or incarcerated. Run the program for maybe a year, or a few years if it’s an inner city Green zone. A simple method to prove the validity of his theory.
And a halfway house for ‘vulnerable’ youth in every block.
I do hope Mrs Lovell is awarded a bravery decoration for taking on two men armed with knives in defence of her family.
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Some years ago in Sicktoria one of the lords of Police recommended that in the event of a home invasion just give them what they want.
There is starting to be a good reason to defund State Police and contract with private security on a suburb by suburb basis.
And vote for a local sherrif.
It’s got me beat why so many on this blog reckon “a dose of their own medicine will wake the leftists up”. Huh?
Maybe you din’t see the recent fiasco in Martha’s Vineyard USA whereby the woke leftist millionaires / billionaires (Obama among them) did not learn any lesson whatsoever.
Rich leftists want everyone they dislike killed. The head cops want average Joe’s killed. The govts with their fake Health officers want you dead. The key here is that they do it under the cloak of “plausible deniability” to keep the cattle in befuddled silence.
This Hallam f’wit has said it straight; lied about HIS complicity in the killing of the woman in North Lakes. The head cops in Brisbane have also lied consistently about what happened at Tara: about THEIR complicity.
What next? Instead of fighting their way ashore at Normandy, the yanks, poms and canucks shoulda just reasoned with the kill-crazed defenders?
Everyone knows leftism is a death cult, so why the tippy-toeing around the “cure” for it?
Further to above. Hallam knew the killers lived only two houses away from the victims but LIED about it= is an enabler of the criminals in the same way someone lying about the close proximity of any danger (say some hated chemical company producing toxic substances; Bhopal?) is an enabler of any resultant harm.
Known as an accomplice
BTW: What is Flash Cat?
Ascot is probably one of the most upmarket suburbs in Brisbane. Every night gangs of kids come and steal high end cars and then Instagram high speed joyrides down the freeways of Brisbane. Then abandon the cars. The police know who they are and do nothing. Because under age and problematic demographics.
Intestine fact re Townsville. Apparently one of the most common places for a stolen joyride car to be abandoned is close to the hospital. Overdoses.
John Hallam appears to be a time server waiting to collect his police pension. He will say and do anything to achieve that personal aim. Just look at the videos of him that come up in an internet search. He probably once believed his job was to protect the general public and not offenders, but watching politicians and the courts turned him into a hollow man.
Yep. I’m hearing from business owners that cops are also now largely indifferent to shop-lifting.
Law enforcement, California style.
And no doubt other areas in the U.S. too.
Democrat America policing.
Yes, Siltstone – very likely.
Phrases like “the youth justice space” indicate he’s been to one too many in-service sessions run by social workers. Queensland Police is top-heavy with women and they use their mastery in this dialect to advance their own careers.
Actual beat coppers who live for collaring crooks aren’t wanted.