Luxon calls growing prisoner numbers ‘a good thing’ as police target slips
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has declared the soaring prison population to be a “good thing”, characterising it as the price of restoring law and order
He also conceded the government was running behind on its promise to boost police numbers by 500, despite previously insisting the target would be met by next week.
Facing reporters at Parliament on Tuesday, Luxon was questioned about the prison muster, which has surged to record highs and is now nearing 11,000 inmates.
“Absolutely, that’s a good thing,” he said. “Yep, good thing.”
Luxon said the coalition would not ease up on criminals or adjust policy simply because the costs were rising.
“I understand… the financial implication of… restoring law and order in New Zealand, but we make no apologies about that,” he said.
“The cost will be what the cost will be.”
Luxon doesn’t give a fuck about the cost and he doesn’t give a fuck about the ongoing cost.
His basic bitch rational is ‘lock them up and throw away the key’.
Media sell crime clickbait porn to the masses.
Young Māori and Pacifica abuse and attack exploited Chinese and Indian workers in sweat shop dairies and bottle shops while the white middle classes clutch their pearls in the suburbs and scream, ‘something must be done’ and Luxon is there to do the doing.
We don’t care that damaged men go into under resourced, corrupt and violent prisons and come out as monsters to commit worse crimes, we just don’t care.
And neither does Luxon. He will gladly lock anyone up for anything if it makes you feel the illusion of safety.
We banned gang patches, but gang crime is through the roof.
The illusion of safety is the perfect handmaiden to the clickbait of crime fear.
Our prisons dehumanise and damage men who are already dehumanised and damaged. They then put them out with fuck all support and we look confused when they cause more terrible crime.
We are a low horizon imagination people fixated on cow udders, undiagnosed alcoholism and a domestic violence rate that is civil war level. We hate anyone smarter than us, despise intellectualism and have our petty bigotries manipulated by the right with an ease and fission that is almost sexual.
The majority want prisoners to not only have their liberty taken from them, but we want to make them suffer as well.
There is a large chunk who want to see prisoners chained together in orange jumpsuits breaking rocks while singing ‘Old Man River”.
That is who we is.
That is what we have become.
A nation of gauche hatreds and petty malice, ruddy faced with fury and confusion, wearing cow shit splattered slippers and banjo twanging cultural insulation.
We would gladly burn books if we had any idea where the library was.
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Big problems coming for jails .An inside staff member tells me that they are not replacing staff who leave .Three members have left her team and they are not being replaced .She had a meeting with a manager from Wellington last week who could not do basic maths .There are 3 cell blocks per unit where she works .Each has 40 cells .Each cell has 2 prisoners .The manager said that equaled 120 prisoners so they did not need replacement staff or any extra staff .When the staff member pointed out that there are 240 prisoners in the unit the manager told her she was wrong there is only 120 cells so there can only be 120 prisoners .Once again the staff member pointed out there are two prisoners per cell so there must be 240 prisoners in total .Once again the manager said she was incorrect .
When we look at the minister in charge we can see the problem starts at the very top as he is as thick as pig shit .
On the minister he promised he would step down if we did not have 500 extra police by the end of last month .We have only 167 and they way the top brass are culling themselves we will have less than when he started .Will he keep his promise or will Luxon sweep him under the rug which has a massive mound of shit under it now there may not be room for him .