Labour’s get tough on crime spasm – is it enough to sate Kiwis thirst for Lynch mobs?

The ISPOS Poll of issues concerning Kiwis highlights how a constant focus on crime by the clickbait news industry has helped catapult crime into the second issue NZers are most concerned by.

Labour have been late to the game as they have struggled to find a policy pitch that sates Kiwis thirst for Lynch mobs without making it crazy draconian and counter productive.

What Labour have scrambled to put together isn’t terrible, but it won’t really do a hell of a lot either.

ACT called for ankle bracelets on 11 year olds, National called for them to be on 10 year olds, Labour have settled on 12 year olds.

We do not have the facilities to heal these broken children, we only have poorly funded fight clubs where staff arrange the beatings of kids in State care and a system with zero oversight so that the State can never be held liable for the damage those beatings cause.

Kiwis are a simple humble folk, but once we are angered it becomes toxic because we don’t have the emotional capacity as a culture to process that anger beyond rugby, alcoholism and domestic violence.

We have three very distinct crime problems, youth crime, 501 meth crime and the class war race tensions at the heart of it all.

 

Youth Crime:

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.

We know statistically that many of these youth are being abused at home, a home National, ACT and now Labour want to ankle bracelet them to!

These are the broken forgotten children who are being abused inside our state care facilities and breaking out to cause more mayhem. Their basic bitch notoriety social media attention seeking is the only taste of fame and importance their young lives have savoured so of course like stupid children addicted to a drug they keep playing up and those that play up get noticed by the older gangs who see it as recruitment potential.

Criminalising these children only sets them up for a life of criminality, but when middle NZ is frightened, they are the first to be sacrificed on our bonfire of righteous wrath.

 

501 meth crime:

My fear is that ACT and National can’t actually tell the difference between the Mongrel Mob, Headhunters, Hells Angels, Black Power or Comancheros.

And that’s an enormous problem because the gangs who flooded Opotiki to mourn the murder of their President and who freaked middle NZ out so much last week, are not the same as the sophisticated Cartel linked gangs who are making enormous profit from NZs meth trade.

As TDB has been relentlessly pointing out for 3 years now, the invasion of 501 organised criminals from Australia generated a unique event in NZ gang culture by injecting into the domestic crime scene, an Australian criminal class far more violent and sophisticated than the domestic gang environment.

The 501 syndicates have used stand over tactics and mob hits to impose new taxes and distribution networks, that’s what you are seeing in those headlines. They have access to South American Cartel Meth which is purer and cheaper than the mass produced Triad sourced meth the alpha Gangs import into NZ.

A point of meth sells for $5 in America and $100 here. The price mark up is so enormous that the South American Cartels are actively investing, and that’s an enormous fucking problem because if you think a Patched Gang Member riding on top of a van at a Tangi is Mogadishu, what until you see the counter-intelligence tactics of Cartels!

The only reason we are making big busts now is because previously the GCSB were intercepting international communications between 501 syndicates and South American Cartels and instead of passing that intelligence to local Detectives to work, passed the intel up the chain of command because the NSA wants Cartel intel.

That was stopped and the intel shared with local Police to start hitting their drug storage infrastructures inside NZ.

That’s why Nationals Gang Patch idea, Seymour’s ‘subhuman comment’ and Winston’s mad desire to declare martial law over mourning gang members is so basic bitch stupid!

NOTHING they are suggesting will solve a fucking thing when it comes to dealing with these new highly sophisticated, ultra violent, cartel backed syndicates.

We are adults. Surely we have an obligation to push for social policy that at least attempts to solve the problem!

Banning Gang Patches from public isn’t a solution!

If we want to lower Organised Crimes influence over civil society we need to have fully funded meth rehab programmes that can lower demand which will lower the price which will deter Organised Crime and the only way you can fund 6 month meth rehab programmes is by legalising Cannabis and ring fencing profits for those rehabilitation programmes!

If cannabis were legalised, the New Zealand industry could employ about 5000 people and reap almost $1.1 billion in taxes a year, two in-depth reports by Business and Economic Research Ltd have shown.

We currently spend $15million per year on drug rehabilitation programmes.

Imagine if we ring fenced $150million from cannabis taxation to spend on drug rehabilitation!

There are solutions to our Meth drug problems and the danger Organised Crime like Cartels pose to the fabric of society, and heavy handed police responses are only part of that solution.

Legalising cannabis would provide the taxation to fund $150m worth of drug rehabilitation and break the meth addiction that is driving Cartel economic interest.

We need to be smarter with drug policy, not dumber!

 

The class war race tensions at the heart of it all:

There is an interesting class war race tension at the heart of the ram raids that no one is talking about.

We have disenfranchised Māori and Pacifica youth attacking business primarily staffed by exploited Indian and Chinese migrant workers while the white middle class fear of this crime is pimped by corporate media crime porn clickbait and exploited by Right wing Politicians.

It’s an immigration friction point clusterfuck of exploitation and no one wants to acknowledge that dynamic in all of this.

 

SOLUTIONS:

YOUTH CRIME: We need secure youth facilities where these broken children can be healed – NOT PUNISHED! The punishment is in their loss of liberty, you start making them suffer now and you only build a more violent criminal.

501 ORGANISED CRIME: You can only bring down the price of Cartel meth by diffusing demand and you can only do that with true and effective meth rehabilitation which you can only afford through legalising cannabis and taxing it properly! This alongside a specific Gang focus on Cartel links that utilise GCSB intercept intel gathering to get South American Cartels out of NZ, ensuring no more 501s get sent back to NZ is also essential.

CLASS WAR RACE TENSIONS: The naked exploitation of Indian and Chinese migrant workers in Dairies and Bottle shops need to be unwound so that you don’t have desperate exploited workers fighting to save the owners shop in the first place.

 

Conclusion:

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.

This is extremely grim reading…

‘Disconnection at all levels’: Ombudsman’s scathing review of Corrections

Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier​ has issued a blistering critique of the Department of Corrections’ top brass, who he says are failing to drive meaningful progress.

Boshier started an investigation into management at Corrections, after the 2020 Waikeria Prison riot. He said it became clear that previous recommendations for change at Corrections had not been actioned, and so investigated management and culture within the department.

“Waikeria was one of many prisons I had inspected over a number of years where despite countless recommendations for change by both me and other oversight agencies, the same issues kept coming up, again and again,” he said.

He said Corrections’ senior leaders knew what needed to be done, but had not ensured any improvements were made to the conditions of prisons.

…look, I appreciate that many of you are frightened and angry by the post covid crime wave that is hitting us, just as it is in Australia, UK, Canada and America. The sacrifice of Covid was unequally shared in an unequal society and those distortions are manifesting now.

I appreciate for some of you frightened and angry Volk that some seem to get a tiny bit of sexual fission out of not only incarcerating someone, but wanting to make them suffer a bit too eh?

I’m sure you’ll not have read whatever the Chief Ombudsman was complaining about, you are guessing he’s whinging about not getting enough culturally appropriate cuddles and hongi’s at night eh?

Probably.

He was probably complaining that Chippy himself isn’t coming down to the gates to personally welcome all the crime he’s letting out with maps to all the Michael Hill Jewellers located around the city eh?

Some wet liberal wank eh?

Except he wasn’t.

Except he was giving a final clarion call of a warning that the current system is so busted, so broken that the basics of living inside the prison are in critical meltdown.

Do you understand what he’s saying here?

He said there needed to be a greater focus on ensuring basic human rights for prisoners, with poor conditions in the prisons making it more dangerous for staff and prisoners as tensions rose.

The living conditions become so squalid that the prisoners will revolt and you will spark prison riots!

That’s what happened at the Waikeria prison riot! The living conditions, even for a prison, became so run down and inoperable that it collapsed.

He said the riot at Waikeria prison was fuelled, in part, due to the poor living conditions and human rights abuses at prison.

“Those issues included unreasonable lock up hours, a lack of privacy in toilet and shower areas, and, in the case of Waikeria, decrepit conditions in its high security areas,” he said.

In previous reports about Waikeria, Boshier said he had highlighted those concerns and they had been accepted by Corrections. Yet he said there hadn’t been much, if any, progress to addressing these issues.

“This troubled me so much that I felt a deep dive was necessary to understand why the department hasn’t been able to make meaningful and long-lasting change,” he said.

National and ACT if elected want to plough thousands more people into our broken and dysfunctional Prison Empire with zero costings and no way to fund the enormous spike in the Prison population they are about to embark us upon.

Watch for the calls to privatise the prison system.

An underfunded, violent and corrupt prison system will only produce more damaged men. Is our need for vengeance so blinding?

In the wake of Matu Tangi Matua Reid’s unspeakable violence and shooting spree in Downtown Auckland, there will be no desire for forgiveness or understanding, in these febrile culture war times where race, gender and identity divide and erode solidarity we are all just islands of subjective rage on an ocean of virtue signalling vengeance.

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.

 

 

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