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Smith Blog - Our Right to Feel Safe

Posted by: Michael Smith | 22 February, 2010 - 1:36 PM

One in seven Queenslanders are too scared to walk the streets of their own suburbs at night.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has just released its Crime Victimisation Report.

14% of Queenslanders refuse to walk alone at night in their own streets.

The report finds that more than 100,000 Queenslanders say they were assaulted in the 12 months before the survey.

One in seven Queenslanders are too scared to walk the streets of their own suburbs at night.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has just released its Crime Victimisation Report.

14% of Queenslanders refuse to walk alone at night in their own streets.

The report finds that more than 100,000 Queenslanders say they were assaulted in the 12 months before the survey.

That’s twice as many as official police records report - and that gels with the ABS report’s finding that only 40% of victims reported their attack to police.

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4530.0Main+Features12008-09?OpenDocument

This report reveals what’s at the heart of the Our Right to Feel Safe forum. 20 years ago we didn’t have a problem with people feeling unsafe in their own streets at night. Now one in seven of us won’t go out after dark.

The right to feel safe is intangible; it’s very hard to put a statistical or financial value on it. But it’s an indictment on our community that so many people don’t feel safe in their own streets.

It’s of no comfort to that one person in seven that the police commissioner can point to crime statistics. Or that the Attorney General can point to the maximum available sentences for various categories of crime. Or that the police minister can talk about police to population ratios and comparisons of Queensland to other states. The reality of life for many Queenslanders is reflected in that statistic - one in seven won’t go out at night.

And that’s summed up in one phrase. We need to win back that feeling of safety in our streets.

That’s why 4BC is hosting the Our Right to Feel Safe forum at:

The Greek Club

29 - 31 Edmondstone Street, South Brisbane, QLD 4101

Wednesday 17th March - from 12-2pm

Blog comments

Darryl,

In reply to your comments 24 March- dream on brother.

PS.
Don't forget to check for Reds under your bed.

John Forrest Wednesday 24 March, 2010 - 10:11 PM
John Forrest, Is that the best you have got?. As for the people on the right of politics being a 'Loosehead Minority', I suppose we shall see at the next election when Anna Bliar is tossed out for being the most disgraceful premier ever to run this state. Her mismanagement of this state is breathtaking as is your defence of someone calling people idiots that can't even spell the name of the political party they support.

Darryl Wednesday 24 March, 2010 - 1:53 PM
Wobblyone,

Let's face facts. The right to feel safe forum was nothing more than Michael Smith pandering to people like yourself and the rest of the right wing loosehead minority.

John Forrest Tuesday 23 March, 2010 - 8:29 PM
Darryl,

Before you start telling Steve how to spell (23 March) perhaps you should run the spell check ruler over your own comments.

John Forrest Tuesday 23 March, 2010 - 8:21 PM
Poor ol Wobbly,

Still clinging to that failed notion that ideology can govern...

Liberalism (what those of the right call "freedom") is what those on the Right believe in, much the same as those on the left do, although Wobbly and those on the right would have us believe otherwise...

Seeing as their idea of Nationalism is still living down what a certain Austrian did to the whole right side of the political divide.

Wobbly and many on the right do not believe in law and order, citizen empowered government. They only believe in the tokenist ideology that it is all someone elses fault.

Perhaps Wobbly would like to enlighten us as to which Political Party he supports?

Regards,

Crimson

Crimson Tuesday 23 March, 2010 - 5:08 PM
Steve, Are you seriously trying to tell the people of Queensland that our laws are adaquate and that the punishments handed out are Acceptable!!How is holding a forum for the average person to let our public officials know they are not happy SPREADING FEAR AND HATE?Queenslanders have had enough of being lied to by a bunch of soft on crime, looney left socialists.Also, surely you can't possibly think that selling our states Assets for example is a good thing because what happens when your socialist mates come back into office, spend up big AGAIN...how are we going to pay the debt off...I know... the Labor party can hike up the prices on Electricity,Water,Rego,Land Tax,Public Transport tickets,The Gateway Toll,car license renewals ect, ect, ect AGAIN. Are YOU getting it yet STEVE!!!!. I find it laughable that the people who can least afford it are the ones who support these clowns the most. So if you want to talk about being enlighten well there is a bloody spotlight shining on your incompitent mates in the Queensland Government right now because they could NOT run a chook raffle if you bought the chook and sold the tickets for them. By the way Steve,the word "Labor" as in "The Labor party" does not have a U in it.Maybe it might be wise to learn how to spell their name before defending them...Now who again did you say were the idiots?

Darryl Tuesday 23 March, 2010 - 12:43 PM