The NZ Herald asking why people are so concerned with crime is like Trump hosting a seminar on the lack of courtesy in modern political life…
New poll on crime and safety shows New Zealanders feel less safe today than five years ago
Two-thirds of Kiwis are more concerned about being a victim of crime today than they were five years ago and harsher prison sentences and more police would make them feel safer, a new Weekend Herald poll reveals.
Experts say addressing crime requires society-wide solutions and our sense of safety has been affected by the visibility of crimes in the media and social media.
As part of the editorial series, The New New Zealand: Rebuilding Better, the Herald is looking at the state of crime in our country and the solutions available to address it.
A poll conducted for the Herald by Dynata from May 25-29 asked 1000 respondents if they were more or less concerned about being the victim of a crime today than five years ago.
…the fear and hysteria around crime is generated BY the very same NZ Herald clickbait who are now polling you on why you are so frightened of crime!
It’s like the the drug dealer also running the drug rehab clinic.
Images of ram raids and organised crime violence has shocked, frightened and angered the country with a 25.2% increase in theft and a 19.7% increase in acts intended to cause injury.
The stabbing and killing last year of a Dairy worker in the former Prime Minister’s own electorate has become emblematic of a narrative the Government is soft on crime while the get tough on crime cheerleaders promise terrible retribution.
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 perception is that crime is out of control, despite the evidence showing a spike, but in context, isn’t the hysteria clickbait the mainstream media are selling it as.
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?
This fear mongering clickbait is generating real world ramifications with ACT and National promising ankle bracelets on children and a return to counter productive Military Boot Camps.
The same people screaming that the mainstream media are scaring us over Covid are more than happy to promote crime clickbait by that very same media!
Youth crime has spiked and it needs actual solutions, what we are getting is just more raw meat fear mongering for ratings.
The anxiety a recession creates cancels out compassion, empathy and rational debate. As the desperation drives violent crime via a Crime Porn News filter to insecure viewers, watch how the crime debate disintegrates into lynch mob level bumper sticker slogans.
Your anger is being manipulated by the ‘Get Tough on Crime’ Cheerleaders for counter productive policy and
The Right are manipulating the Prison and Crime narrative.
They say the soft-on-crime-cuddle-a-crim Labour Party are fecklessly letting out 4000 prisoners while the crime rate soars.
They are not only confusing correlation as cause, they are ignoring how and why Labour gained those numbers in the first place.
When the National Party tightened Prison policy they allowed for non violent offenders to apply for home detention while in prison. All Labour did was provide assistance to the Prisoners eligible for that process to fill in the forms, because most of the prisoners are illiterate.
They aren’t skipping out the front gate and ram raiding Michael Hill Jewellers, they are on home detention and we put them on home detention because we know being inside prison is the best indication you are going to go back to prison!
70% reoffend after being released for two years!
They do that because Prison is a brutal, violent, corrupt, understaffed nightmare that is deeply traumatising and damaging for those who don’t pose a violent threat.
Only the worst are being kept in there, people whose actions are deeply damaging and all we are gaining is time inside where they can’t hurt the general public.
Our prison system is damaging, it takes angry hurt men and turns them into angrier monsters.
That’s why you want them out of prison!
So why is our crime rate soaring?
Let’s be honest, some certainly are sawing off their ankle bracelet and joining the Frey, but that is a single digit minority, not anywhere near what is generating the current crime wave.
What is generating the current crime wave is the same thing that is generating crime waves throughout the post-covid Western World.
The same is happening in Australia, UK, Canada and America.
Post covid societal and economic stresses causing crime waves at the same time there is 12.4% food inflation and a cost of living crisis while surviving the ongoing economic, cultural and social impacts of climate crisis storms and geopolitical shockwaves is as predictable as National having to walk something back 24 hours after Luxon says it!
Of course crime is exploding everywhere because the covid sacrifice was felt unevenly across our unequal society, pretending building more fucking prisons is a solution to all of that is sophistry at its most intellectually bankrupt.
Having the NZ Herald poll on a response to crime when they feed that response is dishonest journalism.
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Martyn’s problem would be solved if there was some kind of media and speech regulator that set down how problematic issues could be written and spoken about in public so that no harms were caused and everyone was kept safe from the harmful effects of words.
Yes, I’m being sarcastic.
Let’s just pretend…
Maybe that’s Labour’s motto?
Maybe Labour ought to smell the roses. The game is up. Chippie better pull finger I read the National Defence review it’s a woke dogma utopia. They’re literally righting diversity into National security. They better do a quadruple triple backflip on it somersault on it. Everyone who is anyone has to read it.
No their motto was “Let’s do this!” Then they went on to pretend doing this.
And here we are!
The Top G Andrew Tate has already succeeded in bankrupting Vice and is on track to Bankrupt the BBC and, extinction rebellion. People are sick of legacy media lying. There’s no evidence that he’s a rapist those charges got dropped. All media and police have contacted everyone he knows over 2000 people and they couldn’t find one person to confirm that he hated woman, rapes woman or causes great ecological harm. People have just been cutting up snippets and creating there own narrotive about the Top G. Yeah I like Andrew Tate. I know a couple of guys who took his hustlers University one of them is doing really well. How many can say that about Greta.
I think Andrew Tate represents something that is need because in World War Two we elected leaders because on the other side there was something extreme and I think Andrew Top G Tate fills this gigantic vacuum.
Only people of the correct political opinion should be allowed access to words, the rest can grunt their disapproval.
Very well grunted.
Maybe we need a ministry of acceptable speech that will allow only words that don’t raise anxiety. Can’t have fear and anxiety that some little shits will come for some organized looting. That would be bad for the left.
Is the nation actually capable of producing one serious broadsheet newspaper? Just one?
The National Business Review hardly counts, as it is no longer a daily, and they can’t even afford to get it printed any more.
Most of the other papers now resemble a sort of unadventurous, mid-market tabloid — full of fluff and attacks on the poor, but little coverage of the biggest issues. Regulators allowing absolute monopolies in every daily newspaper market has been disastrous.
Hipkins and Coster did it better when they gaslit the public over the real gang crime surge after the Napier cyclone.
All those “unconfirmed reports”
“Nothing to see here people move along”
So what are the stats for NZ actually looking like?
https://m.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2303/S00170/labour-s-lack-of-leadership-sees-crime-rate-surge.htm
“ “Data released by Police shows that total victimisations increased from 241,000 in 2017 to over 350,000 in 2022. That’s a 46 per cent increase.
“Worse still, serious assaults resulting in injury have skyrocketed from 9,800 in 2017 to 23,000 last year. That’s a 140 per cent increase.
“This is on top of the increasing number of ram raids with 886 incidents in 2022 – one every ten hours. A 551 per cent increase since 2018.”
But safer communities together?
their communities are safer thanks to some 10+ million in the new budget for security to MPs and their properties. The rest should just not read the Herald/Stuff/Media et al because what you don’t know does not exist.
So who in their right mind will vote Labour?
Send them and their parents, pakeha and Maori, PI and others to the Ukrainian Russian Front for the Boot Camp training. Problem solved.
Like +110%
Wagner is offering jobs.
You don’t need the media to see your local shopping centre boarded up in plywood or armoured in steel like a third world war zone as a result of crime. Its everywhere!
Martyn – why does the graph not show 2022 data??
Martyn – opps 2023 data
Because it’s so bad nathan.
Bob the first – That’s my opinion as well.
THere is a huge movement for the Americanisation of policing in NZ that the media is trying to stoke. They want cops to be above the law, due process to be suspended and civil liberties to be shredded. If certain people in this country had their way, cops would be able to beat and gun down who they like. Prior to 2021. No police officer in the USA was conviceted for excessive force. A cop could literally get is gun out and just shoot anyone at random, and nothing would happen to him.
The Police have been above the law & happy to gun down people for quite some time. Cahill is also quite happy to lie to further his agenda, push his political stance & make laws.
Once again Bollocks .Your blogs are getting more rabid by the day .Is the thought of National/Act in charge making you unhinged.
In America:
A third of the 155 officers charged with murder since 2005 has been convicted. Over 50 is not the same as zero!
Since 2021 the incidence of charges and conviction of cops using illegal force have increased significantly.
This is more likely to be the result of media coverage than your woke claim.
In New Zealand, most officer involved shootings are “justified”, because the officer legitimately feared for their safety or the safety of others. Generally in fluid situations where officers are armed, you can choose to either secure a perimeter and wait until a specialist AOS arrives, they are trained to de-escalate armed situations and will try to end them without bloodshed, or you can move in, which will generally trigger a close confrontation where it is necessary to put an offender down. So to a certain extent, an officer can engineer a justified shooting by their own choices.
In particularly dangerous situations like the Mosque attacks, generally a perimeter will be secured as officer safety trumps the well-being of any potential victims still within a cordon.
and the yanks do policing sooooo well millsey
on a sidebar has anyone noticed the anti whittakers chocolate stories that are popping up? of course they maybe letting standards slip but it makes me wonder if cadburys have increased the size of the journos brown envelopes…cos lets face it whittakers (whom I have no connection with) produce a far superior product than cadburys palm oil blocks….just a thought
Didn’t the NZ Herald help set up the day of shame at Albert Park 25/3/ 23 by misleading its readers about the purpose of Kellie-Jay Keen’s invite to New Zealand ? If so, then they enabled crime, including old women being bullied and bashed, and women prevented from being able to speak in a pre-booked public place. Didn’t the Herald also fail to report the violence that occurred that day, and pretend that it was all sunshine and light and inclusiveness when it was a brutal silencing of women’s voices and worse ? This isn’t just dishonest, it was gutter-level misogyny, and for no good reason except to peddle their paper in any direction which pays. IMO. It won’t last. IMO.
Well at least we’ve still got Mike Hosking.
you mean he hasn’t been snapped up by fox or gb news yet? how remiss of them…mind you they’re not exactly short of dimwitted 2bob sad shockjocks…bob the lefty
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