So statistics have finally confirmed what we all suspected. Anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOS) are a waste of time. Laughed aside by the majority of those who are handed them (61% of 10-17 years old punished with them have completely ignored them) now the courts have stopped bothering to issue them.
Some Labour ministers have tried to spin the reduction in the numbers issued to show that they work as crime is on the decrease. That highlights why Labour got hammered in the recent local elections. People know that there are more out-of-control teenagers on the loose across the land; why don’t the politicians?
