Our Future Is Looking Grim With A Silver Lining

Our future is determined on what we choose to do with the present

We are drawing near to an age where humanity will almost be fighting to get it's security back and peace of mind with normal functional society.  Crimes like this on any scale regardless of age, but more specifically towards teenagers, causes one to watch over their back in an age where we should be enjoying the peace some of our ancestors and loved ones fought so hard to attain.  Looking at the black and white we can see easily that indeed the crime is increasing dramatically in more ways than one.  Some of the key figures I can see in the first example is once again the break of stereotypical scenarios.  One stereotype is the ethnicity of the crimes committed in New Zealand.  In my first example there is factual evidence stating that majority of youth based crime was Maori ethnicity and European ethnicity combined with no real winner in counting so to speak.  Although Maori does indeed have less youths in New Zealand it does not necessarily mean that the crimes were committed by Maori.  We also can see the factual evidence stating (from the first example) that majority of crimes result in the 'state' system style of punishment (youth aid, warning etc).  Are we setting the example that because they are young they do not understand their actions?  Therefore concluding that once is okay, second is bad, third time around you might be in trouble.  As mentioned in previous points we should be focusing our attention towards the source of what is causing all this and providing real experience with a positive influence.  To emphasize this, according to other statistics we can see that a large portion of youth are either addicted to drugs/alcohol as well as not being enrolled in any education program.