Two initiatives have focused the mind on badly behaved children this week and how to deal with them.
Under the first, Children’s Secretary Ed Balls proposes that trouble-makers as young as 10 should sign a good behaviour contract . The “most challenging” among them will have to stick to the order or risk a criminal record.
The second, more extreme, suggestion comes from Gary Pugh, forensic science director for the Metropolitan Police, who was quoted in The Observer as saying trouble makers as young as five should be recorded on the national DNA database because future offenders can be picked out an early age.
The idea has been widely criticised, both by those who dislike the idea of stigmatising children at such a young age and those who bemoan what they call the government’s obsession with compiling databases — and its embarrassing tendency to lose personal data. The government has been non-committal but says it is listening to all views.
Do you believe law enforcement authorities need more tools at their disposal to deal with unruly children?
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Forget the sneaky DNA robbing for HMG to aid ID theft for anyone with a PC in any country to steal, their track record is proven more than once as to how efficient they are with personal data, and there is no need for anything other than a whack for unruly kids, commensurate with the misdemeanour. End of!
- Posted by steve phoenixBalls is a political thug and the psychological profile of policemen as control freaks is well known. This pair would probably have been better suited to working for the Stasi and their insidious schemes are extremely dangerous to a free society.
The bad behaviour of many of today’s children (and many of their young parents, who are little more than children themselves) is a direct result of government policies which have removed the concept of a person’s personal responsibility for controlling his/her behaviour out of consideration for the well-being of other people and replaced it with a set of self-centred “rights” determined by the state.
Change the policies and you change the behaviour (over time). The current government is both unwilling and unable to throw off its oppressive ideology, therefore the first and most important step is to change the government. There will be no improvement until this is done.
- Posted by Mike TSterilization for the long term solution.
- Posted by Joe Simpsonshould they all be sent to boot camps in Australia or Russia for a little re-training????????????
- Posted by roger-h