People with pitchforks on social media pages are raising fears of vigilantism but others say they want real solutions, not just more kids in jail
– including calls for neighbours to “storm the house” and “hang whoever is inside” – after media reports incorrectly claimed the premises was a halfway house for young criminals.
Cairns business owner Perri Conti attended a rally outside the state parliament on Tuesday wearing a T-shirt calling her city the “crime capital”. She recalls having two cars stolen from her home; having a knife pulled at her business by a 10-year-old boy. “Everybody has had a gutful, and all the government is doing is dividing, dividing, dividing,” she says.
Conti runs her own solutions-based Facebook page and is banned from one of the large crime pages in Cairns.
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