LOL. That sounds like the stock “argument” against any reform.
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How much has crime increased in NZ?
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-...ally-increased
Almost every part of the country has experienced double digit increases in the frequency of crime compared to before the pandemic.
Labour gave full benefits to single mothers who previously would not name the father of their children, so those tomcats can contribute to family support.
In answer to a direct question on this mornings The Hui, Minister Sepuloni answered a total of 64000 kids were included in that change.
Get rooted NZ while the rooters continue unabashed and not responsible.
Thanks Labour.
‘Seeds of apartheid’ - Winston has read the mood of the vast majority of the electorate out there, sick of having separatism and favouritism towards one race shoved down their throats.
Done by Ardern for votes - not to lift the majority of Maoris and NZers up to greater and better standards in all things.
Watch this become the biggest election issue of 2023.
Winston will not benefit from it as he is the one who installed Ardern & her mob into power.
Ardern & Labour have no defence and will get swept out of office.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nz-fir...4AWK43DN4BGVI/
"What's going on in this country is straight-out racism and I'm against it and so are my colleagues."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nz-fir...4AWK43DN4BGVI/
On Three Waters reform, Peters described the plan as "retarded theft".
So says Mr "Don't Blame Me" ;)
The Prime Ministers refers to a report from MSD and says child poverty is going down as the reports says slightly fewer children are experiencing hardship.
She conveniently forgets to mention that the report does not count children living in hotels, motels, caravans & cars. No shame
With all due respect ... I think it is more complicated.
The US do have a shockingly high crime rate (well, for any western country) - despite having as well the harshest penalties in the Western world. They have as well a rather high proportion of innocent people in their jails - even 10% on death row are innocent. Do they need harsher sentences?
We do need an effective criminal system (i.e. criminals can rely on being caught). We need a competent police force you can trust (i.e. without bias, without hidden corruption, without favouring buddies). We need a court system which produces fair sentences in months, not unfair sentences in years.
We don't need policemen planting evidence because they think somebody is guilty, and we don't need courts locking up innocent people for many years just because somebody must pay.
In general - we don't need harsher sentences, we need better (i.e. fairer) sentences for the offenders and a better system to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent.
And - we do need to grow a society which is growing less prison birds. We need to support family values, we need to help families to rear children, we need to provide a supportive environment helping these children to do the right thing and we need to educate in our schools responsible citizens.
This is what we need, not harsher penalties for the unlucky ones which are caught by the system (whether they are guilty of not).