Police Commissioner Mal Hyde Agrees with Simon Slade

Sorry about the silly headline, but I could not resist. Would love to see that in The Advertiser one day.

Last Friday night, on ABC's Stateline, Commissioner Hyde made the same point that I have been making about the so-called Gang of 49: "It's not exactly a gang of 49. They're a particular targeted group of people. They're not all associated together and it's not formed like a tightly knit gang. They're just a group of associated high risk offenders."

It was also interesting to see the Commissioner's views on rehabilitation, given the different way that those views were represented in some print media.

Either we take the bull by the horns and commit to rehabilitation, or we sentence our society to a future of increased crime.