Of course 3 strikes doesn’t work – that’s the point!

Three Strikes Law Political Posturing Of Worst Kind – Labour Party

The Government is bringing back a law that has little evidential backing just to look tough, Labour justice spokesperson Duncan Webb said.

“This is political posturing of the worst kind. Three strikes did not reduce serious offending, as ACT and National claimed it would,” Duncan Webb said.

“In fact there was almost no evidence to show it deters offending, and instead it resulted in severe distortions in sentencing third strike offenders.

“One example provided at the time the legislation was repealed was a person who was jailed for 10 years where the sentencing judge said they would ordinarily have imposed 18 months in prison for that kind of offending.

“Another saw a person get a sentence of seven years in prison for patting a prison guard’s bottom. That was unjust and can still occur under this new proposal.

Three Strikes Has Failed Before And Will Fail Again – Green Party

Resurrecting the archaic three-strikes legislation is an unwelcome return to a failed American-style approach to justice.

“New Zealand needs a justice system that treats all people with humanity, dignity, and respect. Bringing back the failed three strikes law will lead to grossly unfair results that disproportionately impact Māori, including much harsher sentences than would otherwise be imposed,” says Green Party Justice spokesperson Tamatha Paul.

“It is shameful that New Zealand has one of the highest imprisonment rates in the developed world. This is despite mounting evidence that mass incarceration has failed to bring down rates of crime, keep communities safe, or rehabilitate those in our system.

Three Strikes Targets Those ‘too Brown To Be White’ – Te Pati Maori

The government’s decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today.

During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received over 50% of the strikes, and 63% of those with a second strike were Māori.

Ministry of Justice briefs established that there was no evidence of this policy reducing crime, or having any obvious effect on crime rates at all.

“We know unequivocally that being harder on crime equates to being harder on Māori and those too brown to be white. These numbers demonstrate it,” said Ferris.

“Modelled on US law that disproportionately targeted African Americans, Three Strikes has unjustly perpetuated racism and ensnared Māori with no evidence of reducing crime.

Of course 3 Strikes doesn’t work!

THAT’S THE POINT!

Kiwis don’t give a shit if draconian punishment works or not, they just want suffering.

New Zealanders are so easily spooked by the ‘if it bleeds it leads’ mainstream media that they are terrified and frightened and angered by crime and have passed the point of being rational any longer about prison policy and they just want suffering inflicted on prisoners now.

This is us, this is the thing we have been mutated into.

We aren’t being rational, we are simply being emotional.

This is really about the Political Right strangling off Judges ability to be independent and that war started with banning the cultural reports…

Scrapped cultural reports won’t save taxpayer dollars – officials

Government officials have warned scrapping legal aid funding for section 27 cultural reports will end up costing the taxpayer more, with justice experts adding the workarounds will also take up more court time

…what we are seeing now is right wing ‘feelings’ being rammed through Parliament misusing urgency with no checks and balances dictating social policy no matter how counter productive the ‘feeling’.

Neato!

The ultimate obligation of us as citizens, is that even when confronted with vile feral humans doing vile feral shit, we must force ourselves towards justice, not vengeance.

Look, if someone hurt my family or friends, I’d want 5 minutes alone with that person and a baseball bat, I get that terrible harm inflicted on innocent people drives a thirst for righteous revenge, and I acknowledge that, but we are talking about actual social policy here and because of the overwhelming power of the State over the individual in a prison environment, we must  demand checks and balances and quantifiable outcomes over a thirst for vengeance.

Remember – the prisoner losing their liberty IS the punishment, making prisoners suffer additionally to that punishment is a recipe for social disaster and that’s why we see a 70% re-offense rate within 2 years of prison release!

We don’t want people in prison because the greatest determinate of whether or not a person will go to prison – IS BEING SENT TO PRISON!

We want our Judges to pass justice, not revenge, and giving them more background understanding of the person they are judging plus the flexibility to focus on attempting to find a way for the prisoner to be punished by losing their liberty AND attempting to rehabilitate them so that violent criminality isn’t an ongoing feature of their character.

Judges having the much maligned ‘Cultural Reports’ is exactly the kind of background understanding we want from Judges so that mercy is what the Court is focused on. You can’t get Justice without using mercy, look our underfunded, over crowded, violent and corrupt prison system only manufactures men more damaged than when they went in!

We don’t allow any rehabilitation to any prisoner unless they admit their guilt – seeing as many of those prisoners are on remand and haven’t had their trial yet, why would they admit guilt?

National placed that rule so as to smear dog shit in the prisoners faces before they could gain access to rehabilitation, it was a needless cruelty and ‘respect my authritah’ big dick virtue signalling by National that has created a massive counter productive backlash that sees prisoners serve their entire sentence never admitting their guilt and getting no rehab.

Look you stupid sleepy hobbits, how about this.

You can lock these men up for as long as your frightened little hearts desire, but just remove the bullshit smearing dog shit into the prisoners face by making them admit their guilt, and just give them access to counselling and rehab services immediately so that there is the thinnest chance that the counselling and rehab might actually have an impact so that when they are released they are far less likely to create more violence.

Why won’t you stupid sleepy hobbits just make that tiny, tiny, tiny change and actually try and heal these broken men in prison or is the truth that you want them to suffer with rehabilitation a cloak you use to mask your sadism?

We want our Judges to have these culture reports because it gives more insight into the Prisoner and whether mercy is worth an attempt, blinding these judges and forcing them to lock men up and throw away the key will not work, and you should all be honest enough to admit it.

NZ’s crime paranoia is created by disaffected Māori and Pacifica youth violently robbing exploited migrant labour in the ram raided shops and whipped into a 3 Strikes frenzy by the white and asian suburban voters.

This is what we are now. Frightened lambs spooked by our own fears of the other.

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