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Crime is up, the police seem to be struggling, our courts are full and the government is looking for solutions.
Find your way down to any of the courts and you will notice one thing: men. men are everywhere.
It is a fact of modern Australia that men have a greater tendency to commit crime than women, four times more likely according to ABS data. 
And with that, women are three times more likely to be victims of crime and almost twice as likely to be stalked.
Whether it is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Rosie Batty pledging action on domestic violence, or Liza Harvey and Karl O'Callaghan looking for greater police resources we skirt around the issue. Men need to own this.
More than 80 per cent of murders, robbery and unlawful entry in Australia are committed by men, and more than 90 per cent of sexual assaults too.
Crime is committed for a whole range of reasons, none of which are acceptable.
Laws exist to keep society safe and to uphold community expectations. It is unadulterated arrogance that shirks this, that thinks one is beyond it.
So, why do men commit crime so much more than women? It is a simple and complex answer: gender inequality.
Crime is committed when we think we can get away with it or when we are frustrated and desperate. It's an exposure of power and the worst parts of masculinity.
We avoid calling out men's violent behaviour because of fear of retribution. Women avoid it because of the gender hierarchy at play in which men, especially violent men, assume dominance to defend their keep, and men don't call out other men because of the pack mentality.
But we need to reduce crime, and mobilising men is integral to this. Go to their hearts and their heads. As men we need to own up that we are emotional beasts, a criticism usually only levied at women, and that we must learn to manage that better.
These issues haven't emanated out of nowhere. We have let them grow. We have let boisterous and bolshy behaviour brew.
Central to this is moving away from the tired and limiting concept on what it means to be a "real man".
We have all heard it.
This idea of being a "real man" does not resonate widely. It is a superficial view of masculinity that can do more harm than good.
Limiting men to niche concepts of what it means to be a "real man" only hurts this situation. Gender stereotypes avoid the realities of modern masculinity, hiding victims and the terror of the situation.
It's an idea that those who commit crime and violence are not like you or me, but are different. Nothing could be further from the truth, because if it was then we wouldn't have this problem. You might not be violent or criminal yet the statistics do not lie - someone has to be committing this. It feeds into this idea that every woman has heard in response to discrimination that he "couldn't do that, he is too nice". Unfortunately, this is not true.
We then hold up "good men" as examples. They are successful and nice, they could never be violent.
That just isn't true.
Recently a friend of mine from a well-to-do family came to me crying following a fight with her husband. We stepped through and she realised that this was domestic violence. He was being deliberately abusive.
Certain actions none of us can accept. To confront crime it is men who need to own their inadequacies.
Earlier this year Dame Quentin Bryce released a wide-ranging inquiry into domestic violence in Queensland. She told me that "this is the most serious human rights issue facing our country, facing the world".
They are not light words and we should take heed of them.
While women are not exempt from committing crime, it is obvious that the overwhelming majority of it is perpetuated by men.
Men must lift this standard.
Conrad Liveris is an advocate, adviser and researcher on the politics and economics of diversity.