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FEAR & VIOLENCE

We should be wary of inflaming a complex problem when it comes to crime in Melbourne’s west. There are over 333,000 people in Wyndham and according to The Age report (“ The Melbourne suburbs where security guards are forced to carry guns ”, 20/10), youth offending has increased from 600 crimes in 2016, to most recently, 1101.

Yes, this is a near doubling, but, for the citizens of Wyndham, the youth crime rate, as a percentage of the population, has gone from 0.0018 to 0.0033 crimes per person per year. And because of this, security guards are going

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