Ram Raid news stories make news producers orgasm.
They are cheap, easy to produce and present as live breaking news and the kids committing the crimes boasting on social media for notoriety guarantees a self feeding loop which terrifies the middle classes and sets the get tough on crime lynch mob off.
The number of serious repeat ram raiders is about 100, 80% of whom are already known to welfare agencies who are the kids from John Key’s draconian welfare reforms that saw kids in cars, state house tenants thrown onto the street for wrongful meth testing and whose parents were incarcerated in our private prison industry.
How will more draconian policies fix the problems the last set of draconian policies created and how much responsibility should the media be held accountable for sparking the latest moral panic?
Out of this panic we are demanding ankle bracelets on 10 year olds and counter productive Military Boot Camps.
The ease with which we are spooked and led by clickbait news is extraordinary.
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The same thing is happening in the USA. Trying to ramp up hysteria about crime in order to erode civil liberties and expand police powers. They did the same thing 20 years ago after 9/11.
They demonized young middle-eastern/Arab man as terrorists in the 2000’s now they are demonizing young brown and black men in the 2020’s.
They want police to be able to just gun down anyone they like.
Ram Raid news stories make news producers orgasm?
Not quite as much as the robbery of an Ellerslie Jeweller recently had David Seymour getting off. Fortunately he was in the area on the day and he probably drove like a loon to get there and been yelling, “Yes! Brilliant! Manna from Heaven!” all the way. His media coverage about the incident suggested that. And of course even more so when he got to pointedly mention in Parliament something in the line of, “When I was on the scene…” (Sorry can’t make that bit in massive bold print.)
All media proudly brought, bought and sponsored by the Nact parties
, Auckland chamber of commerce( Simon Bridges)and the business round table.
David Seymours orgasm on the Ellerslie jewelry heist was a site to behold.
About time we got some raving Labour radio jocks and jills, left TV commentators to counter the fox news media works. Also the tory fox-herald. All that free NATZACT politcal party broadcasts.
Making crime exciting and enticing. Good for ratings bad for us.
https://www.lamag.com/longform/how-high-speed-car-chases-became-a-citywide-pastime-in-los-angeles/
and The Times wants you to sign up before you can read all this.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-put-real-life-police-car-chases-on-tv-i-wish-i-hadnt-q3002vf2v
and Reality TV star has name suppressed: (A teaser – star, tv, reality, name suppression – all creates curiosity.)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300735351/former-reality-tv-star-charged-over-alleged-hitandrun-of-police-officer Nov.10/22
Well now a poor shop keeper in Auckland has been stabbed to death. O>k it its not a ram raid and maybe its not a youth offender, but maybe it is. Very sad.
I don’t know what the solution is, but right now when I am feeling angry and sad about this, I am thinking lock the bastard up. (sorry, I know I shouldn’t think that way, but right now I do)
People who run those dairies aren’t rick at all, scrape by and work all the god dam hours of the day and night.
They don’t deserve this
The media coverage of the crime wave, especially in Auckland is relevant because we either see it in real time or see the aftermath of the walls of plywood in our shopping centres and the increasing wall of steel and mesh and concrete blocks as shops try to fortify their way out of the crime wave. It’s such a reassuring look to remind us that serious crime is thriving whilst little is done to about it.
We got pointless useless Chippy as police minister after the Poto mega fail because Jacinda thought his used car sales pitch would get it out of the headlines, it didn’t. We get talk, then we get radio silence. We get the limp Andrew Coster and the jail emptying Kelvin Davis and his cabal of pointless judges keeping them empty. And every day, in retail nirvana we have to live with it, or die as in Glen Eden yesterday afternoon or Mt Albert last night.
The coverage is an inconvenient reminder of Labour’s law and order failure! And I’m quite sure they hate it!
Consider for a moment that the societal environment could be an inconvenient reminder of the legacy of the likes of Roger Douglas, Ruth Richardson and John Key.
Try it. I’m sure you’ll hate it
Hundreds and thousands of people suffered due to Douglas and Richardson. They don’t go around ram raiding or stabbing innocent workers.
The blame lies with the people who commit the crimes
You just need to shop in Remmers dahlink. Better class of crims and way less mess
If there’s only 100 of them Luxon’s idea sounds good. Lock em up and the ram raids will end.
No excuse for touching, starving or beating teenages in boot camps and no excuses for sexually abusing boy scouts.
They have shown the alleged murderer of Dairy worker in Sandringham from CTV footage – does not look like a kid or youth! Government have turned a blind eye to rip offs from supermarkets/power/water/insurance/banking and many other essential areas that people need to use to survive, gangs are up and now members given proceeds of crime money, justice has now been slowed to a halt with the amount of lawyers delaying everything and sending the ‘junior lawyers’ to do their work and the system being allowed to be delayed constantly, more high needs people come into NZ that are dysfunctional requiring services or doing a terrible job working here, which then delays service for the existing dysfunctional people already in NZ and getting worse!
See Golriz is as usual only concerned the Iranian refugees and situation – nothing wrong with that, but maybe actually leave parliament and focus on Iran so that another person who actually is focused on NZ can take her place. Woke need to open their eyes and look at what a shit hole NZ has become under their (lack of) watch which they spend their days worrying about themselves and other woke obsessions like terrorist rights instead of victim rights and pronoun abuse while cancelling woman’s language and experience.
With regard to the media coverage of the Sandringham dairy operator’s killing, all of the iron grilles, fog cannon and bollards on the planet would have made zero difference to the outcome. Such defence strategies are pointless if you are going to chase an armed robber on the street.
Maybe, just maybe the never ending victims have had a guts full of being victims without the police or courts really caring and are fighting back.
All the more sad to be fair that is got to this!
The disgraceful Tory newspapers, radio (and Seymore) politicized this unfortunate sad occasion. TV said he was stabbed outside the dairy. He was killed 100m away. Why did he chase the killer? The dumb thief would have been easily caught – left a lot of clues. When did he ring the cops?
The loser crim deserves life imprisonment with Mrs Palmer and big Ben.
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