Melbourne, Australia—the spike in street crime to more than one million incidents in the last year is largely due to the activities of “Apex” gang whose members are all from a “Sudanese refugee background,” police say.

The African crime wave has led local media to claim that “young thieves are running riot” in the suburbs, while the police chief said they “would rather steal than work.”

The nonwhite gang is so named because their gang originated in Apex Street, Dandenong, about 20 miles southwest of Melbourne.

According to a report on Australia’s 7 News, police have blamed the Apex gang for what they say is an “alarming spike” in violent crime in Melbourne, with Victoria’s crime rate soaring by 12.4 percent in the past year.

7 News said that the one million recorded offences have led to “claims young thieves are running riot on the suburbs.”

Car thefts are up 22 percent across Victoria, while house burglaries have increased almost 14 percent.

Weapons and explosives offences have soared 18.5 percent, theft has increased 16 percent, and drug use and possession is up 13.4 percent. Reported family violence offences have also jumped 10 percent since last year, the figures also revealed.

Crime in the area where the Apex gang is most active, in Dandenong, is up an astonishing 24 percent.

Apex gang members are mostly in their early twenties, but some as young as 13 have recently been arrested in connection with violent home invasions and carjackings.

Only last week, police arrested 13 African “refugees” after they pounced on a St. Albans family, in Melbourne’s west, while they were in their BMW.

A 12-year-old victim was dragged out of her family’s car and told she would be killed, and the family home was robbed. The youngest nonwhite criminal was just 13 years old.

The arrests come after two other African criminals, a 17-year-old living in Taylors Hill, and a 14-year-old from South Yarra, were arrested the previous weekend, accused of smashing their way into Caroline Springs home and stealing two cars.

They have also been questioned over an aggravated burglary at a Taylors Lakes home, where vehicles were also stolen.

Earlier this month, six Africans were arrested after a stolen BMW with nine people on board crashed into a pole in Melbourne.

According to police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton—who hosted a pointless “summit to tackle youth offending” to try and deal with the nonwhite crime plague, the “youths would rather steal than work.”

Ashton said that he had found that the Africans “struggle resisting the urge to re-offend.”

“We are finding that we are arresting the same young people again and again and again…We’re hearing it’s easier for them to deal drugs than to deal with the bureaucracy of Centrelink’ [the job agency]. For them it’s easier to steal than to work.”

Typically, the “summit” came up with a number of useless liberal “suggestions” on how to tackle the African crime wave, including “”opening lines of communication to young offenders, finding new ways to rehabilitate rather than jail, and better resourcing of youth services.”

All of these “measures” will have no effect whatsoever, because they fail to address the real cause of nonwhite crime, which is the same in every Western country, namely the inability of heterogeneous societies to form any degree of social cohesiveness which is the only guarantor of stability.

The deliberate importation of low-IQ individuals in large numbers to any advanced Western society which requires a high degree of adaptability and intelligence to fit in, can result in nothing else but the creation of a criminal underclass which can never be “reformed.”

Although Commissioner Ashton’s summit will never admit it, the only solution for the African crime wave is to halt and reverse African immigration to Australia.