{"id":6036,"date":"2011-05-27T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2011-05-27T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:56:27","slug":"nine-year-old-drink-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6036","title":{"rendered":"Nine-year-old Drink Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6039 lazyload\" title=\"Car Breaking Kid\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/juve_car_crime.jpg\" alt=\"Car Breaking Kid\" width=\"180\" height=\"110\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/110;\" \/>Presumably <del>this is yet another freedom of information<\/del> [dead link](FOI) muck raking exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, police records show that a 9-year-old in Cumbria was breathalysed and taken into custody. They had to release him because he was &#8220;to young to be held accountable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the police should have gone straight round to his parents&#8217; house (or probably just &#8220;parent&#8221; &#8211; he&#8217;s unlikely to be from a stable household) and arrested them &#8211; because they ARE accountable. Completely responsible, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>The story focuses on the fact that in the last year thousands of under 18s have been arrested in the north of England. Four 11-year-olds and a 10-year-old were arrested for car theft. Seven 12-year-olds were arrested in Cleveland for the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>The total number is 2,647 arrests for car theft, aggravated vehicle taking, drink driving, and underage driving.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps illustrating partly WHY there is such a problem, the report says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Northumbria Police spokesman said juvenile car crime and motoring offences had dropped year on year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously the words of a responsible parent.<\/p>\n<p>Even one case of this nature is shocking. The fact that there are so many &#8211; and no one can (or will) do anything meaningful about it &#8211; beggars belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumably this is yet another freedom of information [dead link](FOI) muck raking exercise. Apparently, police records show that a 9-year-old in Cumbria was breathalysed and taken into custody. They had to release him because he was &#8220;to young to be held accountable&#8221;. Well, the police should have gone straight round to his parents&#8217; house (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}