Crime is crime irrespective of who performs. The consequences should be based of the nature of crime and strict. They acknowledge that repeat offenders in small numbers are driving increase in crime still they are bailed again and again to waste time of police and impact more people. This has to be fixed. =========== It came as Victoria's Crime Statistics Agency presented figures showing a small increase in the number of Indian, Sudanese and Chinese offenders over the past three years, and an increase in the number of Australian-born offenders. The figures backed up previous research showing the rate of offending among people under 25 was decreasing, despite high rates of recidivism among a small group of young offenders.