Queensland newspapers join forces with a message for our politicians, on behalf of our communities. This is not the state we want – one in the grip of a youth crime epidemic so widespread that readers from the border north to the Cape live in fear that it will be their car, their home or their life that is taken next.
A Queensland mother is scared to live in her own home after having to watch a livestream of juvenile offenders who stole her car, torched it, and boasted to social media as they drove at lethal speeds.
Shocking online discoveries have revealed how juvenile offenders are using social media to climb the criminal ladder, as a special investigation uncovers young criminals’ activities in the state’s most crime-riddled city.
Premier Steven Miles will write to social media giant Meta to raise his concerns about its platforms’ “shameless” promotion of violent crimes.
The outgoing police commissioner says she believes standing down a Gold Coast cop was “definitely the right decision” having reviewed footage of a pursuit.
Queensland’s youth crime crisis is not getting any better, and the statistics show that in black and white, writes the editor.
Katter’s Australian Party has launched a bold plan designed to intensively rehabilitate youth offenders as the state battles a crime scourge.
There’s no point in parliament enacting laws to ensure our worst repeat offenders are not released to wreak havoc if the courts do not apply the legislation’s intent, writes the editor.
Both the Police Minister and our top cop have challenged courts to “use all the tools in their toolbox” to crack down on brazen and violent crims, as the opposition accuses the state of being in denial about the threat and frequency of crime.
Youth crime has long plagued Queensland but it’s going nowhere if these cases of home invasion horrors are to go by.
Opposition Leader David Crisafulli will use the LNP state conference to call out the government’s youth crime record.
Leaked emails from a Gold Coast cop have laid bare a chronic shortage of experienced police amid a crime crisis, the officer revealing dozens of calls per shift that police can’t attend.
The mother of a Gold Coast teen savagely bashed by an alleged gang of youths has called for serious child criminals to be named and shamed as she speaks out for the first time. Read her heartbreaking plea.
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