Youth crime crisis meeting in Kununurra calls for funding accountability for agencies, programs

A child hangs out the window of a stolen car driving dangerously through Kununurra's streets last month. (ABC Kimberley: Ted O'Connor)

Community and Indigenous leaders in Kununurra have held crisis talks over a recent spate of vehicle thefts and attempted police car rammings, amid concern children as young as 10 are regularly committing serious offences while on bail. 

The East Kimberley town has struggled to turn around stubbornly high rates of youth crime in recent years, an issue fuelled by groups of children regularly roaming the streets at night.