Ok, this is going to be confusing, I am reading your blogs in reverse order so I will comment on things that you wrote about months and years ago and have probably forgotten, or has your memory improved over time? I had the experience of working in a female prison for 9 years and you really see a diverse cross-section of people. They were mostly petty criminals intent on feeding their drug habits (of which you see the effects of only too well.) Your colleague from the Police is doing the best he can in a grim society where the young are really not intellectually challenged enough to buck the growing trend of street crime. Ultimately, it is parental influence that will address this problem and once we can stop bad people procreating then the problem will carry on. If we can get to these kids at an early age and turn them around then hopefully there can be positive results. However, I think we both know that that is a tall order and we will just watch the world steadily decline.......