Boot camp teen allegedly re-offends weeks after leaving facility
Children’s Minister Karen Chhour says one of the 10 teenagers who took part in the first military-style boot camp has allegedly re-offended, just a few weeks after leaving the facility.
The teenage boy was still serving a community sentence when, it is alleged, he re-offended.
News of the alleged offending was revealed on Thursday, a few hours before Chhour was set to introduce new legislation to Parliament to support the military-style boot camps programme.
Parliament was set to debate a new bill that would give specific powers to the youth court to sentence young people to a bootcamp, and give staff at those facilities more powers. Those powers would include the ability to use force to detain the young prisoners.
Of course the kids are re-offending!
It is not important that the military Boot Camps (that the NZ Military want nothing to do with) are failing.
Of course they are.
Their success is not in the re-offence rte you stupid sleepy hobbits, their success is in the word’s ‘Military Boot Camp’.
Look, New Zealanders are, how do I say this politely?
Fucking stupid.
We are a people with a low horizon imagination, we are fixated on rugby, cow udders and hiding our domestic violence rates.
We are easily spooked and very easily led.
Over Covid the explosion of youth crime was very predictable as the universal experience of Covid created unique stresses throughout our society.
You can see now that all the pressure of Covid has dissipated, that the the youth crime rate has slumped…
Numbers of repeat serious young offenders are dropping – and no one knows why
- The Government has set a target for a 15% reduction in the number of serious and persistent young offenders by the end of 2029.
- Documents released to the Herald show a rising annual trend in the number of these offenders for three and a half years, but it has now reversed for consecutive months.
- Most of the Government’s cornerstone policies on this issue are yet to be implemented, while one that ministers are exploring is raising concern: ‘more punitive measures for recidivist families’.
…the Covid lockdown was a unique universal experience where everyone sacrificed equally in an unequal society.
Building back to the same level of inequality after that universal sacrifice was never good enough and exposed the bleeding gums of our inequality.
This unique universal event impacted everyone differently.
For some, having the jackboot of Capitalism off their throat allowed them too ask deeper questions about their happiness and saw people quitting jobs to move onto something more meaningful.
For some, working from home in plush houses and leafy suburbs was freeing.
For some, the intense loneliness had them plunge into online rabbit homes.
For some it ignited a violence and anger and desperation to lash out.
The children caught ram raiding were the broken children of State care.
Rather than respond with over the top draconian bullshit, we needed to heal and repair these children.
Now the crime stats are showing us that youth crime is plummeting NOT BECAUSE OF THE DRACONIAN KNEE JERK POLICY but because society has normalised after lockdown.
Implementing this over the top draconian knee jerk policy now will be deeply counter productive but Kiwis fed on a diet of crime porn clickbait from the news media don’t really care how counter productive the policy is because they want suffering to quench their thirst of outrage.
The success of the Military Boot Camps is not whether they reform the kids, it’s to sate the easily manipulated anger of the voters by simply hearing the term, ‘Military Boot Camps’, because that’s what the easily frightened wants to hear, they want to hear these kids are being punished harshly, they don’t give a shit of it works!
Evidence based social policy isn’t who we are now, it’s all about right wing feelings for revenge.
Our petty bigotries are so easily manipulated.
This is who we is now, this is what we have become.
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“Look, New Zealanders are, how do I say this politely? Fucking Stupid”
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Just read on news room that there are only 850 kids in the youth justice system ,which is 800 too many .But the most interesting thing in the story was how the minister is ramping up on the labour governments early intervention program .Why is she doing that ?because IT BLOODY WELL WORKS .Maybe all the millions she has wasted on he abuse in care fetish along with Luxons enjoyment of kicking the shit out of bottom feeders ,was put into the kitty more kids would get the benefit of those early interventions .
But I guess that would not satisfy the romper stompers in national and act .Also note the minister is another that is not from National so when it turns to shit Nats and Luxon will say it wasnt us ,just like when the gun lobby gets its way and there is another rampaging shoot up in the future .
I suspect that 1 in 10 will soon become 2 in 10 and so forth as people need something positive/useful to do that improves their situation if we want to keep them from previous antisocial activities and this government has not got the imagination to provide that option.
No jobs no future and it’s getting worse by the day. Youth crime ramped up all over the world during covid now it’s on the way down no thanks to this coalition just a natural progression for whatever reason. A boot up the arse ain’t going to help is it
Soon they will roll out the old chestnut that all young people are just fucken lazy .Imagine what they think of all the people that have been thrown on the scrap heap in the last 6 months .
Back on track in the race to the bottom .Hell even Fonterra is selling the crown jewels to prop up the dairy payout ,watch that space in the next couple of years when they run out of stuff to sell .They have sold off all the off shore stuff and are now going local started with TIP TOP and now progressing to all the other brands .
Meat to the dim voters who vote for them. So they can deliver to the rich.
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