So when Salford City Council started putting up posters of local young people who had had antisocial behaviour orders placed on them, with their photographs, names and a list of their "crimes", the action was predictably greeted with glee in the media and in the affected neighbourhoods.
After all, why go to the trouble of getting antisocial behaviour orders if the people whose lives have been upset don't know about it and there is a good chance that the culprits will be able to continue their bad behaviour? At last, somebody cares enough to do something and can be seen to care. You know it will be the talk of the pub as people exchange stories about the local troublemakers.
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