The village is developing an unenviable notoriety for rowdy youth behaviour. Of late we have seen youths damaging property in the centre of the village and creating an atmosphere of apprehension among the residents. Some of the problems may be attributed to outside youths but there seems to be a hard core of troublemakers who live within the village itself.
The troubles are escalating and within a matter of only a few weeks we have seen an assault on the pensioner who locked the play area gates, a pumpkin hurled through a window, an assault on an off duty police officer, and during the last week the old Sandholme Station house has been gutted by fire. Local radio news mentioned this as being of suspicious origin - is this a euphamism for arson? The rule of law appears to be breaking down.
Softly softly policies seem to be ineffective - where do we as a community go from here?
Everyone seems to decry the idea of vigilantes but if the police dont sort things out thats the next step
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