What we last week we got the crime figures are not unexpected, a rise of fifteen percent, you're talking about Hawthorne, an increase of thirty percent, and police are arresting in record numbers. The predictable response is, of course, it's the cops fault, it's the court's fault, but it's never our fault. We've got a face up to reality that we're soft as butter and that Dan's expert is dead because all we do is blame, blame, blame. By the time police
put the handcuffs on, you've lost. They're already offenders. So we need to look at it. In a Broadway talking to a teacher said, it goes into the school and four hundred to five hundred kids are on their phones. Another teacher was talking about a little social media group amongst the kids, and you know, there's a bit of bickery. Then a dad gets on and said I'm going to bash you to one of the kids, and the kid responds and says, my uncle's are biking. He's come to
school to stab you. This is the sort of things we've got.
That's the modern version of keeping up with the Joneses.
So what we have done as adults is we've managed to produce a generation which is dumber, less, resilient, and sadder. I want to just take him back for a moment, be indulted. When I was at school, I was brought up in a housing commission house. My mother died when I was quite young. I went to Prestonese High which only went to year eleven because no one was expected to do year twelve. But I told you what we had aspirations. We had hope. We knew that if things
went well and we tried, nothing could stop us. And out of that group. Of that little group became doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, real estate agents, owners of construction businesses, crime reporters. We didn't know anything about private schools, so we were never jealous, and we got free tertiary education. What is missing now is aspirations. A cop got hold of one of these young offenders, who happened to be of African descent, and said, you're actually a smart kid. You should be at school.
And he said, yeah, my brother is a qualified civil engineer, but he's qualification is not recognized here and he's driving a taxi. So the only way I can get ahead is by robbing people socin Alan if she instead of tough laws, which we all want, go ahead with that, but have a summit and bring in and have everything on the table, because it's not a law and order issue,
and it's not just about offending. It's about what is happening to this generation with smartphones being possibly the most dangerous thing horrible that we have ever invented.
So I met Russell quotes, someone is saying, we're going to look back and say, how did we treat our children so badly?
Professor Scott galileiros because child's colleges say you are allowing the enemy into your house. You've got CCTV, you've got gates, but the enemy is in the bedroom with your kids and these smart devices.
Do people know that there is technology whereby you can regulate your child's phone and turn just program them to to turn off at certain times. I'll say at eight o'clock at night and turn back on at eight o'clock in the morning. That it's very simple technology. Well don't you think that should be part of the seminar? And the person I'd be bringing out is Katherine McCluskey, an absolute jet out of Scotland who is a youth worker and a forensic expert, and she's been working in this
space neck. This is Scotland, this is Glasgow, where there have been generations of gangs, where the Glasgow smile is a slash across your face. And one of the things they do, for example, is when a kids stabbed, when they get to hospital, there is a bloke who won't report it to the police, but he's an ex gang member and he'll go and talk and say, here's my scars, this is what happened, this is crap, here's my card.
We've got a twenty four hour helpline. We'll get you a job, we'll teach you even how to eat properly. And you know what.
There the prisoners under twenty five has dropped seventy five percent since twenty ten.
We need to speak with her. You and me and Scorch have been talking in the break. Her name is Katherine McCluskey. She is Scottish. She needs to come here to address a seminar. We're thinking thirty k had probably cover business, class affairs, accommodation, bibbs and bobs.
We just need to adapt her method.
It has worked right We need to get this Scottish woman out here. Russell