Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Of all the times we hear about police not showing up to break-ins or burglaries or ram raids, we do hear about when they did show up.  This weekend they showed up at Halloween parties gone wrong, to move on kids behaving badly. One neighbour at an out-of-control party in Auckland’s Mt Albert over the weekend said about 30 Police showed up.  My first thought was, that’s a lot of police at one party, how nice of them. Be good if more could show up when stores are being broken into or ram raids are taking place.  But the common denominator here is kids behaving badly. I mean, let’s not kid ourselves that teenagers have always been so good and now they’ve suddenly all gone rogue.  Teenagers have been trouble forever, that’s what they do, but the trouble they’re getting into these days seems more intense and the age they’re getting into it is ever younger.  There are more and younger gang recruits, more and younger burglars and ram raiders.  There's an issue in this country with lack of respect, lack of fear of au