00:00On Monday morning in the centre of Alice Springs, a woman is arrested after allegedly
00:07stabbing her husband with a pair of scissors.
00:10That night in the Darwin suburb of Karama, this bottle shop is held up by two teenagers
00:14wielding an edged weapon, one of whom is arrested soon after.
00:18The spate of violent crime has left locals afraid and frustrated.
00:21It's not the first time it's been robbed anyway, it's been a few times that it's been robbed,
00:26and all these shops here, windows being all smashed.
00:29I would like to see people come out of prison and not go back.
00:33I would like to see people actually reformed, actually educated, actually come out and able
00:38to participate in society.
00:39On the front lines, the Territory's emergency services say the nature of violent crime impacts
00:44their ability to deliver care for Territorians.
00:47At times where there's threats to the welfare of our staff, we encourage our staff and support
00:52them if they need to withdraw these violent cases that we're going to.
00:56At times the care that we can deliver to the patients sometimes is delayed.
00:59The latest violence comes less than a week after the fatal stabbing of beloved supermarket
01:05owner Lynford Fyke in Darwin's northern suburbs.
01:08Now the government is rushing back to parliament to pass harsher bail laws on urgency.
01:12These laws are modelled off laws in both Victoria and New South Wales, which set an overarching
01:20primary test for our courts, which is the safety of the community is the number one priority.
01:26The proposed changes were also raised in February, when a teenager charged over a violent home
01:31invasion was granted bail before absconding into the local community.
01:35At the time, Chief Justice Michael Grant noted that introducing such a rule could result
01:41in a drastic increase of youth in custody.
01:43The changes we're proposing should mean there will be less people bailed.
01:48I know in Chief Justice Grant's four-page statement, he said that in New South Wales remand
01:54went up 32 percent.
01:55The government's reform is expected to pass with bipartisan support.
01:59However, it's yet to be seen how their crime tackling plans will fare in the long term.
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