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"itinerants" = are special wonderful fantastic sacred brilliant people who can do no wrong

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-04/northern-territory-darwin-city-crime-itinerant-panic-room/101820076

Darwin CBD retailer Paul Arnold installs panic room in his store as others report being punched, grabbed by drunken itinerants

Darwin's retailers are warning violent behaviour has increased to the point where their staff are no longer safe and it is driving customers away from the city centre.

Key points:
Darwin retailers say they have been violently attacked by drunken itinerants and are losing business because of rising crime rates
One retailer has installed a panic room in his store
Business owners are calling for more police resources to be directed to the Darwin CBD
In Darwin's central Smith Street shopping mall, food retailers and other business owners have claimed they are losing money hand over fist because drunk itinerants regularly brawl and aggressively demand money from their customers.

"People are scared, they are demanding food and money from my customers, which is very much [affecting] the business, and we don't know where to get help with this problem," one of the mall's food shop owners said.

Ashvin Gill — who manages another business in the mall — said she regularly has to lock her front door after violent, drunk itinerants try to force their way in.

"As the front face of this business, apart from doing my job, I also have to be aware and alert at all times of my own safety as well as my clients, so it can be pretty overwhelming and exhausting" she said.

A woman walking past a group sitting at a table in the Smith St Mall, in the Darwin CBD.
Retailers in the Smith Street Mall say crime is on the rise. (ABC News: Che Chorley)
Ms Gill said when her business had been attacked or she felt under threat, the police have come to assist, but sometimes it took a long time for them to arrive.

"Almost daily, I see police officers but, at the same time, it takes time to call these people. So, it's not an immediate effect of protection," she said.

Retailers report being grabbed, punched
A worker from another shop said she was attacked recently while walking to her car in a car park off the mall after work.

"I was actually grabbed. He was drunk, and I just said: 'Let me go! let me go!'

She said she didn't tell police about the attack because being confronted by drunk itinerants on the street and in the shop has become such a regular occurrence.

Nigel manages another store in the mall.

"Two Friday nights ago, I got punched in the mouth because I didn't want someone sitting in my doorway and he objected," he said.

"Two weeks before that I had a drunk guy come in and completely trash the shop.

"I've had rocks thrown at my window, rocks thrown at me."

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Nigel said the violence was severely damaging the business.

"It's scaring the living daylight out of the tourists, they come in and hide in my shop," he said.

Nigel said he felt the problem had escalated well beyond anti-social behaviour to a serious crime situation.

"As retailers, we've seen what's happened in Tennant Creek and Katherine. We've just lost Alice Springs, I fear that's where we're heading if we don't get this under control."

Photographer and Darwin city councillor Paul Arnold has a gallery in the mall.

"This is the worst Christmas I've had in the CBD and I've got 15 years I've been in the CBD, people are voting with their feet and not coming into the city," he explained

"The cost to small business is getting out of control."

He said he had installed a lockable panic room in the back of his gallery for staff.

"If the shop gets trashed, the shop gets trashed, and they can watch on CCTV and call police."

Calls for more police resources in the CBD
Mr Arnold said that, despite many meetings between retailers, government staff and police, the problem was getting worse.

"We've had public meetings and we hear there is short staffing," he said.

"But the answer is that the police need to be keeping our retailers and business owners in the CBD, and patrons, they need to be keeping them safe, and I'm sorry, they're not."

A NT police officer standing next to a police vehicle, with his back the camera, on a sunny day.
Business owners say there are not enough police resources dedicated to the CBD. (ABC News: Peter Garnish)
For a few years, the Northern Territory government and Darwin City Council have been paying a private security almost $1 million a year to employ a few staff to patrol the CBD in golf buggies.

Nigel said the security guards were limited in what they could do, as they could not touch nor arrest people.

"We're paying a private company to do what we should be getting the police to do," he said.

"Surely that money would be better put back into the police force."

Darwin property crime skyrockets in past year
Police crime statistics show there were 58 per cent more business break-ins in Darwin this year than last year, property damage was up 12 per cent, but assaults dropped by 11 per cent.

Darwin has always had itinerant drinking camps in its parks, but local charities

Nice to see this paper is avoiding posting photographs of these white supremacist itinerants on their rampages, so as to avoid any suggestion of racism or similar. It's about time .....

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Yeah, yeah, whatever, Matty... Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 4^th, 2023 at 11:07am:

Yeah, yeah, whatever, Matty... Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

People are suffering - and you just do not care.

All that matters to you is your narrative.

Darwin CBD retailer Paul Arnold installs panic room in his store as others report being punched, grabbed by drunken itinerants

Darwin's retailers are warning violent behaviour has increased to the point where their staff are no longer safe and it is driving customers away from the city centre.

That's what happens when you allow Howard's Gun Laws and Socialist Insanities to hold sway over reason and decency.

Howard knew he had to protect the body politic and their acolytes in the PS from a well-disciplined militia - without the ultimate sanction of a Few Good People storming their Bastilles they could essentially do as they liked without remorse, regret,empathy or consideration for anyone they chose to ignore.

Now look where the 'tolerance' of certain groups and their behaviour has lead... fear of 'intervention' in case you are called 'racist' and so forth....

And it's the common folk what gets the blame.... and take all the hits so those in ivory towers can pontificate over what a wonderful job on integration etc they are doing...

Can't see how there can ever be any reconciliation between two such disparate parties... one bent on smashing the other into the ground and the other rendered powerless against the barbarian by the gutlessness of their own governments elect and appoint.

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

Clearly this is the New Aboriginal Genocide Against All Things White... hoping to drive whartey out of The Terruhtree and a few other places, then begin the Great March on Canberra... this will never end well.....

Bring on the Glorious Fourteenth of January At Mt Warning - when the real people of Australia throw down the gauntlet.... watch the supine media bury their position under lies and hyperbole and vile name-calling and one-sided reporting ...

There can be no reconciliation with a people who have blatantly declared war on all others and the only recourse should properly be Unconditional Surrender of the aggressors.

Stop The Campaign Of Terrorism in North Eastern NSW! First Step - stop your softcock government offering any more arse-raising bonobo surrenders to threats and intimidation and make them enforce the law ................

Yeah, yeah, whatever, Matty. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)

They are domestic terrorists.
If it were whites then all hell would break lose getting them back under control and locked away.
Not these mongrels though.
Their future has been given the green light to do as they please. It's all encouraged by these left wing white carrnts making the rules. This is the future the left wing terrorists want.
Isn't it time to put a stop to this before some sort of retribution?
The fact these dogs are abos silences the left.

Well - clearly the planned assaults on visitors and their cars leading up to the closure of OUR Mt Warning was a carefully considered terrorist campaign.. and No-Balls Parrot's Tits raised the rump to it and surrendered to their ravings about spirits.... Johnny Walker or Southern Comfort?

Then there are the 'random' fires around Grafton, the attacks on councillor's homes in Coffs... still waiting for the report from Set, our man In Lismore... on what the state of terrorist play is there.... then there was the summer of bushfires many deliberately lit...

Fortunately down here we had the summer of multiple deliberately lit bushfires intent on burning the whole thing down - you don't get a blazing fire on an uninhabited island just across from the township while there is a huge wind behind it without some assistance from god, eh? and so on and so on, in the heart of town right near the high school and daily across the water in the sister township after school closes for the day ...and the prisons are reportedly full of people about whose arrests etc we heard nothing... all there for other offences, eh, rather than get a lynch mob outside the court house...

https://www.9news.com.au/national/mullumbimby-fire-cuts-off-all-mobile-coverage-in-flood-hit-town/858a6c8d-b9ec-4915-a9a1-70841204884c

Video of hoodied figure running away with a fuel container, teenager by the look of it. Wonder who? Some random kid? Can anyone offer any reason for some random kid setting fire to a mobile tower during a flood? Kinda thing kids just do every, day, eh...???

Where IS random, BTW?

North Eastern NSW is out of all control and the state 'government' is raising its arse for the plucking... I say stamp it out.... and damn the torpedoes....

... lifted off the streets on a midnight drear and taken in a hooded ride in a black chopper out into the Arafura Sea.... gangs of right wingers cleansing the streets at night and bodies turning up in garbage dumps and in skip bins.... or way out to sea after a long drop ......

Darwin Has Fallen.... good plot for a book ....

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Alice?

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Time to send in the troops to maintain order. RoR require that they be attacked before being able to exercise force in self-defence and they must at all times be under civilian control unless civil authority cedes control because they cannot control the situation. Troops may only act in common law position as citizens to defend self and others in immediate danger, and have the same rights of detainment of suspects etc, and are at all times subject to the law of the land as applied in their area of operations.

Kind of like security guards in real life, many of whom have over-stepped the line.

The only circumstances in which they may exercise deadly force is when in immediate danger to life and limb and under direct attack that warrants that extreme, UNLESS martial law is declared and the rules clearly laid down on situations in which deadly force may be applied, such as looting, failing to stop when called upon to do so, or attacking persons and property and refusing to desist.

(signed) Colonel T.H.E. Grappler, OC, Territory Intervention Taskforce (TINT) 2023.

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