The govt should research exactly who the crims are.
Are they Aussie expats, what’s their age profile, repeat offenders etc.
Only then can an effective solution can be found (rather than assuming they are all young people, for some reason).
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The govt should research exactly who the crims are.
Are they Aussie expats, what’s their age profile, repeat offenders etc.
Only then can an effective solution can be found (rather than assuming they are all young people, for some reason).
I'm just as outraged by shoplifting as you but I think if you check the Police website & I'll add a link, shoplifting is an example of 'a crime that is not an emergency' & if you want to report it, call 105 or report it online.
I think we're talking about slightly different things, by respond I'm talking about a police car racing to the incident as if it was an emergency, rather than after the event possibly investigating a recognised habitual offender.
So we probably have quite similar stance on this.
Recently I witnessed a really nasty incident at the supermarket where an intimidating heavily built man, was exploding with incredibly angry racist (go back to your own country) comments at an Asian women doing her job at checkout.
He wouldn't leave & there was only a young male student checkout worker to go and quietly stand beside the women while this guy delivered a torrent of swearing & abuse at her.
We all stood ready to do something if he started throwing things & getting physical, but everyone being careful not to worsen the situation.
Seeing she was shaking after he eventually left, I told her she needed to go & have a break, but she said she couldn't as the supermarket was short staffed. She said it happens all the time!
So I just think the Supermarkets need to provide a full time Security guard now to keep their staff safe. It's very unfortunate but they need a full time security presence.
Checkout staff (& customers) should not be expected to have to keep each other safe. (and making $1 million profit per day, they can afford it)
https://www.govt.nz/browse/law-crime...-an-emergency/
Why do you not address the societal issue at the root of this? The literal daylight robbery, the disrespect for human life? Why has it come to this? What is it about this government's policies has enabled and encouraged this behaviour? Could the cynicism and disrespect shown for the populace it was elected to serve be part of the problem?
When a government gives $2.7m to gangs so that they can become more effective drug runners …
When the police minister stated that votes from her electorate are more important than the lives of policemen & policewomen ….
When the police commissioner decrees that policing is by consent ….
Is it any wonder that crims have no fear of consequences and the police are but eunuchs in the eyes of the crims?
Jacinda was a bit of a disaster for NZ.
Nearly ALL her policies trashed by incoming replacement Hipkins.....
BDL with respect I think you've misunderstood.
Luxon, Bishop Willlis etc are all saying (correctly) be warned, the policies haven't been scrapped at all, they've just been delayed ( to allow the govt to focus immediate issues like the cost of living & inflation ).
And it's on record, towards the end of last year Jacinda Ardern stated her govt was going to review these policies early in the new year as it was felt they are trying to do too much too quickly, so Hipkins is just continuing what Adern was going to do anyway.
It's smart & pragmatic & has hit the right tone with the public, hence Labour well and truely back in the race & National dropping in the polls.
If Labour win the election, policies like the Income Protection Insurance, Hate Speech legislation, Water reforms etc will be back on the table so don't think they've gone away.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-election.html
Income Protection - National was saying that it wasn't the right time, Labour agreed (it wasn't coming in until 2025 anyway).
Hate Speech - it became so diluted by all and sundry that no one liked it, best that it is reworked by the Law Commission.
3 Waters - not gone at all, we are waiting to see what changes will be made to appease the opposers.
Meanwhile, Luxon is reading the room very wrongly - he needs to say what he really means (and not have to explain what he just said that people took the wrong way) and stop whinging. National has been caught on the hop - hopefully they will get a bit smarter.
So Hipkins (Chip off Ardern block) has just spent the first 2 weeks repudiating Clueless Cindy's policies
and
is in denial that he was a critical part of the cabinet which made all the ruinous policies in the last 5 years!
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...pg?format=500w
Guess our resident woke leftist maggots cannot bring themselves to stop feeding off the rotting corpse of lies, spin and BS from the Labour Party.
Remember :
"Study hard, work hard and Save hard so we can take from you to give to those who don't." Labour
Jacinda's policies got so unpopular and hated that the only option was for Hipkins to take them off the table for awhile and hope the heat dies down.
Jacinda was a disaster for NZ.
No, Ardern's policies were a disaster for you, but politics is the process of organising how we all live together, & unfortunately the reality is sometimes that means policies which help others won't always help everyone.
Her management through the Covid pandemic a once in 100 year event which has killed almost 7 million people around the world in just 3 years, saved possibly 20,000 lives in NZ.
All the while jobs were protected & we had an economy which was the envy of most OECD countries.
Throughout history, global pandemics, more than any other event have caused the most upheaval & disruption of societies & I think people forget or just don't register what an extraordinary challenging period we have just been through & the disruption it has caused.
That's why history is such an important subject to be taught in schools.
Enough for now.
Stay safe everyone if you are in the path of this cyclone.