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Speaker 1: Appoche production.

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Speaker 2: There's growing community anger over Queensland's youth crime crisis after

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Speaker 2: a woman was held at knife point in her own

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Speaker 2: Teens have been arrested following a dangerous chase in a

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Speaker 2: stolen car.

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Speaker 1: Queensland's youth crime crisis has reached new highs this river

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Speaker 1: the arrest Good morning.

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Speaker 2: A woman has been killed in a horrifying home invasion

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Speaker 2: in Brisbane's North.

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Speaker 3: I think we both like rushed to the door and

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Speaker 3: opened up the bedroom door, and yeah, there was this

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Speaker 3: guy sort of standing right in front of the bedroom door.

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Speaker 3: And then you don't really think about what you're doing.

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Speaker 3: You act on impulse, I think, and you know, you

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Speaker 3: just sort of remember trying to get the one who's

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Speaker 3: immediately by the door like out of the house. And

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Speaker 3: there was a bit of a scuffle by the door, and.

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Speaker 2: Then forty one year old Emma Lovell was allegedly stabbed

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Speaker 2: while fighting off her attackers who broke into her property

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Speaker 2: at North Lakes.

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Speaker 3: She was like this, you know, she'd moved a bit,

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Speaker 3: but she was on in front of me, like laying

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Speaker 3: on the floor with her back to me, you know,

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Speaker 3: you know, and it was a shop to like see

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Speaker 3: her there because it's like, you know, second ago, she

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Speaker 3: was like standing up standing in front of me there

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Speaker 3: and next thing she's lay on the floor and like,

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Speaker 3: I think I've got my phone in casey come back

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Speaker 3: with the phone, and you know, she was like the

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Speaker 3: mummy's bleeding.

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Speaker 4: And they say that a scuffle broke out at the

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Speaker 4: front of the property and both that man and woman

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Speaker 4: have sustained injuries. The woman, Emma Lovell's injuries so severe

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Speaker 4: that specialist paramedics could not save her.

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Speaker 1: For me working and coming from the police, there is

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Speaker 1: massive gaps in the system in relation to kids that

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Speaker 1: sit at the pinnacle of the system.

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Speaker 5: Go and round the ball up and lock them up.

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Speaker 4: Everybody hopes the government will do something about it.

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Speaker 1: Youth bar laws are the strongest in the nation.

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Speaker 5: I just met a bad crowd. They gave me a

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Speaker 5: taste for it. The youngest was probably fourteen or fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Young people require a consolidated community effort and everyone plays

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Speaker 1: a role. Parents, gear givers services, neighbors, sporting clubs, groups,

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Speaker 1: random person walking down the street.

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Speaker 3: I suppose, yeah, community programs, but again it comes down

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Speaker 3: to like you know, you can't put on the government

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Speaker 3: and the wider community failings of a child. To a

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Speaker 3: certain extent, these kids making choices to do what they're doing.

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Speaker 5: At this point, I was using ice. I would buy

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Speaker 5: bigger quantities of ice and sell it to friends of friends.

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Speaker 5: During the day, they'd lays around and smoke pot all day,

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Speaker 5: and then at night they go out and do what's

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Speaker 5: called a creep or a search.

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Speaker 6: Enemy of I think what a good youth justice program

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Speaker 6: can be lived experience has a cool factor that kids

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Speaker 6: want to engage with as his inspirational factor of that

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Speaker 6: person who's may one time and this is what he's done.

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Speaker 3: Until people get locked up and have some sort of

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Speaker 3: consequence the action, nothing is going to change because at

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Speaker 3: the moment people see that they can rob a cart,

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Speaker 3: maybe get locked up, but they'll be out tomorrow for it,

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Speaker 3: or there's some way of putting a consequence to what

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Speaker 3: they're doing. I don't think this is ever going to change.

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Speaker 1: The challenge at the moment here in Queensland and the

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Speaker 1: gap that I identify, young person commits offense, Young person

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Speaker 1: goes to court for the offense. But that process between

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Speaker 1: committing the offense and going to court is months, and

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Speaker 1: during that period of time, that's when the majority of

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Speaker 1: offending takes place. I've been caught, so I'll just go

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Speaker 1: all out, and the seriousness of offenses rises, the.

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Speaker 3: Grass on the ground, on the brown behind your back.

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Speaker 1: Who's to blame, my honest opinion, not the police, not

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Speaker 1: government services, not the young people. I go back to

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Speaker 1: our puzzle piece analogy. You know, I think everyone plays

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Speaker 1: a role.

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Speaker 6: Everyone is to blame, and no one's to blame because

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Speaker 6: every day there's an opportunity for an adult to see

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Speaker 6: a young person in a different light and provide them

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Speaker 6: with that pathway to being a good human. And every

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Speaker 6: day there's a choice of that young person to be

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Speaker 6: a good human and to feel like they have an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I just think that the community values have changed a lot,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's where we're so accustomed these days to

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Speaker 1: seeing a young person in need and stepping back as

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Speaker 1: opposed to stepping forward. A lot of the issues that

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Speaker 1: could be affected proactively with a lot of young people

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Speaker 1: were identified many years ago before they stabbed people, before

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Speaker 1: they broke into a home, before they broke into a car.

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Speaker 1: But we turned our blind eye. We turned the blind

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Speaker 1: eye when they were at school and got suspended for

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Speaker 1: the first time. We turned the blind eye when we

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Speaker 1: saw the neighbors arguing and yelling and just thought that

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Speaker 1: it wasn't our business. We turned the blind eye where

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Speaker 1: we saw the kid walking down the street with no

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Speaker 1: shoes on and just thought, oh, oh, that's horrible. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell my friends at dinner tonight.

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Speaker 3: You're almost going to get people commit crimes. I don't

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Speaker 3: think you're ever going to get away from that. But like,

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Speaker 3: if you can just help people from a younger age,

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Speaker 3: you know, like maybe they can be identified or whatever,

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Speaker 3: then maybe they can help be supported and you know,

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Speaker 3: guide did better.

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Speaker 1: Like we've got a boy sitting here in the studio.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's here because you know, two days ago

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Speaker 1: his house was shot up. He's got nowhere to go.

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Speaker 3: It's such a complex issue, Like it's not just a

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Speaker 3: one size fits all, like responds to answer, I understand

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Speaker 3: people need help, but I also can't get away from

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Speaker 3: people being locked up. If you're murdering people, you just think,

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Speaker 3: in my view, and I've never changed that, you've got

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Speaker 3: to be punished for that. So who's to blame? A

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Speaker 3: youth crime crisis Coming Monday, August twenty six,