NZ Media and Right Wing Government shocked post covid youth crime down

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’.

I have agreed that 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.

Our petty bigotries are so easily manipulated.

 

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