Age care compounds becoming soft crime targets

crimePHILADELPHIA: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.

But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat:

425: A teenage burglar who targeted old people’s sheltered housing units has been warned he faces a jail sentence by a judge…

Full story covered in the Governance Weekly.