We are a group of final-year USQ students conducting research into theft crime reduction strategies appropriate to businesses in the Brisbane Bayside region.

We’re interested to hear the opinions of community members – how can the rates of theft crimes against businesses in the Bayside region be effectively reduced?

shut the pubs at 6 pm
keep the cop shop open till midnight

make kids go home at 6pm
give them more homework

stop asking kids indoctrinated with govt spin
for solutions

keep them busy with research stradjedies
that will get ignored

there i done your homework for you
now cut and paste it
print it out

and get the c minus
this advice deserves

think why ask you to do this research
next they will say..99%.of kids agree..with blank blank blank

we could stop bad tv..and bad vidio games
that shows kids how to be criminals

we could explain to kids the good cop bad cop
that sees 20 out of 21 kids plead guilty to a civil contract violation

we could teach kids that unilateral contracts are uninforcable
that there is only two form of law...[criminal and civil;contract law]

that no victim
no contract
no law is broken

but heck
as if you got any clue what im trying to say

my big risk is that im corrupting a minor
or hundreds of other statuted violatioons
just by talking to a kid..online

Harsher consequences for ANY criminal offence.

agree fully with StG plus make the thieving mongrels work to pay back their victims. Put Magistrates with integrity rather than law educated bureaucrats into our courts.

We are a forum from all over Australia, and at times the world.
You will see rather fixed views but it is unlikely many can directly contribute.
I live in NSW and want to rebut the view every one of them is a mongrel.
Well past my teens I still understand the older sometimes unaware, think like that.
Youth need more education before leaving school about living and life.
Many young criminals only ever do just one thing wrong, them learn what they should have known.
In my lifetime being too easy has proved to make criminals out of those who could be saved.
StG at least spoke for most, a third or fourth offense before punishment is no help.
Give them a place to go, keep control get drugs away educate, its in your hands you are the future we, including the grumble bums,the past.

What are the defining characteristics of the Bayside, that make it different to other business regions? What perspective are you interested in - public policy or individual business tactics? What sort of businesses are you looking at? Retail shops have a much different problem to other types of business. In my small manufacturing business I've never been robbed, probably because I don't have the sort of things that crooks want to pinch, or can carry away easily. Offices suffer a fair amount of pilferage, but it usually isn't large scale.

My suggestion is to look at the stats for the types of thefts occurring and target your approach to the most common or most expensive areas. Your question as it stands is way too vague.