Witnessed an incident a few weekends ago, where I saw someone was walking out with tons of meat and alcohol. Tried verbally telling him to stop (Can’t physically put your hands on perpetrators it would seem these days), rang the police, but in the end, was told to just let him go. It seems petty thefts are no longer deemed a priority and there is nothing that any body can do to stop them. The little scrawny runt blurted out to the store staff “You can’t do anything!!” while he brazenly walked out with several expensive goods.
He then threatened to attack me, then ran away saying I would likely do far more damage to him. If the law wasn’t so slanted towards the rights of perpetrators, would have no hesitation in tackling the runt.
I’ve recently read around the place that petty thefts are now twice as common and have heard of further anecdotes of similarly being met with apathy when other members of the public attempt to ring in to report burglaries and thefts.
It gets harder to accept this situation when we see ordinary folk who accidentally drive a few metres too long in a bus lane are being slapped with $150 fines while perpetrators who do more social harm are getting off with merely a slap with wet bus tickets. The state has to be very careful about this because the longer this state of affairs continue, the state will lose the respect of the people whom they are supposed to be serving.
It looks like the saying “We have a legal system, not a justice system” is quite true these days.
