No prisons by 2040. The Te Pati Maori plan is to do ‘tikanga’ justice. Under the new system a murderer could be back on the streets hunting for fresh victims before you can say Bob’s your aunties live-in lover.
Nothing scary about LABGREETEPATI aye folks…..(?)
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...GY56HIJ4VRYWQ/
‘Te Pāti Māori is challenging Labour to abolish prisons by 2040 and introduce a tikanga-based justice system to address the purported enormous inequities facing this country’s ‘indigenous’ peoples.
Co-leader Rawiri Waititi launched what he called a “revolutionary plan to reform the justice system in Aotearoa” that would tackle the purported institutional racism that has purportedly “traumatised and failed Māori communities at every level”.
Under Labour the incarceration rate has dropped dramatically, peaking in 2018 at 213 people per 100,000 and close to the highest rate in the OECD to now 149 per 100,000. It is part of an overall goal to reduce the prison population 30 per cent on 2017 levels by 2033.
The Government has also introduced a range of measures to reduce purported inequity between Māori and non-Māori, including the five-year strategy Hōkai Rangi.
However, while for Māori the incarceration rate has dropped as well, Māori are still imprisoned at over seven times the rate of non-Māori.
Waititi said reforming the justice system was purportedly about upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
“We are asserting our tino rangatiratanga to oversee our own tikanga-based models of restorative justice.”
The justice policy includes establishing a Māori Justice Authority, creating a parallel Māori justice system based on tikanga and self-governance, and laying a pathway to abolish prisons in Aotearoa by 2040.’