Racist Sensible Sentencing billboards try to eclipse latest results of their tough on crime rhetoric
The racist Sensible Sentencing Trust Billboards with their ‘da’ in the title is a clear mangling of street jive to present a racist trope.
This extraordinarily racist stunt has been driven by two things:
The first is the powerful interview on Q+A with the out going Parole Chair where he destroys the get tough on crime rhetoric that punishment pimps like the Sensible Sentencing Trust pump out…
Outgoing Parole Board chair: Why shorter prison sentences fail
The outgoing Parole Board chair says shorter prison sentences don’t work because it exposes offenders to “a university of crime” without sufficient rehabilitation.
Sir Ron Young is retiring after nearly seven years in the role. He told Q+A for people who had prison sentences shorter than two to three years, the reoffending rate is about 40%.
For people who had spent more than eight years in prison, that dropped to about 10% after rehabilitation and reintegration programmes, he said.
“What it suggests to me that for those under two years, whom we [the Parole Board] don’t see at all, is there has to be a rethink whether or not those sentences are appropriate.”
Sir Ron shits all over the Sensible Sentencing Punishment pimps and they felt that criticism.
The second reason the Sensible Sentencing Punishment Pimps decided to push a racist billboard is because another devastating review on prison and punishment ran in the NZ Herald…
…it’s true. All of Labour’s plan to lower prison numbers were driven off National Party legislation.
National tightened parole conditions and as part of that tightening they allowed for more home detention.
The courts seized upon that Home Detention because the FACTS showed us that less people in prison meant more people on HOME D saw lower re-offence rates.
THOSE. ARE. THE. FUCKING, FACTS!
How dare the Right claim the Left are soft on crime when it is the Left using the exact same legislation National passed to lower the crime rate and lower the re-offence rate.
READ THE FUCKING STATS!
- The Government has passed its flagship sentencing reforms that will lead to longer sentences and add an estimated 1350 prisoners over 10 years
- Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said the changes are a response to a rise in violent crime and sentences of ‘undue leniency’ under Labour
- One of the major factors leading to more community sentences and fewer prison sentences were law changes in 2016, under the previous National-led Government
I said, READ THE FUCKING FACTS!
But that “undue leniency” was enabled by two law changes made not under Labour, but in 2016 under the previous National-led Government. The changes added safeguards to community-based sentences, leading to their increasing use instead of prison sentences.
In the first five years of the changes coming into effect, from mid-2017, there was a 41% drop in the number of people starting short prison sentences, according to the justice sector’s Long-Term Insights On Imprisonment briefing (LTIB).
In real numbers, this translated to almost 3000 fewer offenders being given such a sentence following conviction.
The same drop (41%) occurred for those starting a long sentence, over the same period. By June 2022, the number of sentenced criminals in prison had dropped by 2500, compared to November 2017.
Judicial practices evolved with the changes. Before them, in the 2016-17 year, Justice Ministry figures show 13.5% of all those convicted were sent to prison. A slightly higher proportion – 14.3% – were given high-level community sentences (intensive supervision, community detention, or home detention).
By mid-2022, the proportion of community sentences had jumped to one in five, almost double the proportion receiving a prison sentence (10.7%). Intensive supervision, in particular, had become much more popular than a short prison sentence.
Intensive supervision is a community-based rehabilitation sentence for those who have a medium to high risk of reoffending, and who are convicted of more serious offences.
The 2016 changes by the previous National-led Government meant that electronic monitoring and testing for drugs or alcohol could be used to monitor compliance with intensive supervision conditions, such as an abstinence order.
One of the hopes was that it would help offenders get clean; an estimated 87%have a substance problem during their lifetime, while 47% currently have one.
“The Government recognises that we must do more than just hold offenders to account, and we must address the underlying causes of criminal behaviour and break the cycle of offending,” said then-Corrections Minister Judith Collins in November 2016, at the third reading of the drug and alcohol testing bill.
Swapping prison sentences for community-based sentences was perhaps an unintended consequence.
The judicial shift, from mid-2017, coincides with a fall in reoffending rates:
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- 62% of prisoners reoffended within 24 months of leaving prison in 2016/17, falling to 54.5% in 2021/22.
- Over the same period, the reoffending rate for 24 months after starting a community sentence fell from 40.3% to 33.7%.
- Similar drops were also reflected in reoffending rates in the Youth Court during this period.
At that point, in mid-2022, New Zealand’s imprisonment rate had fallen to 150 people per 100,000 in prison – only slightly above the OECD average.
This was 30% lower than in early 2018, when the prison population – including sentenced and remand prisoners – peaked at 10,800 and the rate (214/100,000) was the sixth highest in the OECD.
That’s right!
Less people in prison and more people on Home D leads to less reoffence BECAUSE our prison system is corrupt, violent and underfunded.
You put damaged men into prison and they come out more damaged.
THAT’S WHAT THE FACTS SAY!.
So, the Punishment Pimps had to deal with a devastating critique from the NZ Herald and had Sir Ron shit all over their tough on crime rhetoric, so how do the Punishment Pimps at Sensible Sentencing respond?
Why with racist troops painting the Greens out as soft on crime.
How disgustingly racist are the Sensible Sentencing arseholes?
You are all so easily led.
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These dickheads aren’t remotely interested in facts. They just have ideological rubbish that makes “woke” look benign. They are complete bought and paid for muppets.
Shame on the Sensible Sentencing Trust, I used to have some sympathy for their views, but not now. As for Sir Ron Young – I heard him being interviewed on radio and TV, and was impressed by his views and vision.
Maybe the current government are trying to make amends for the legislation they earlier passed.
Another bunch of red necks who clearly did not listen to what she said because they are too fucken dumb .All the political parties have clearly shown the dont listen to anyone other than them selves .They all had major orgasms and ran around calling her a fucken idiot when what she said was 100% correct ,NOT ALL PEOPLE LIKE THE POLICE ,
No wonder NZ is seen as a back water .
At least Chippie had the balls to back up the truck and sit down and have a chat and now understands what she was saying .
Grow the fuck up NZ and fuck off you red necks you are way off track stick to your knitting .The trust has done fucken nothing to fix crime rates in the last 40 years .
Sir Ron is absolutely right and who do you think would know best, not the COC government.
Are we in crazy USA or NZ?
Seriously.
Where would you rather be? Just up to three wishes and that is your lot!
So instead of investing in enhanced rehabilitation and lower recidivism the plan is to lock up 1350 at a cost of more than $2billion over 10 years. Makes perfect sense if you want to extract tax dollars for overseas owned private prison companies.
The sensible sentencing trust wants to protect bent coppers, and bent prison officers.
How can this twisted message be allowed to be up on a building? Yet women putting up a dictionary definition of what ‘woman’ means as accepted by the western world for centuries or ever, in a spirit of clarification of the accepted rule, was wrong and it had to be taken down.
Two rules apparently – one for the warped, and one for the bewildered believers in the reasonable nation’s reasonable rules that we thought we had. But thought what is that? Deliver it to me on a silver platter and lock it up for safe display in a museum; these days it flows though your fingers like water.
Shows how far down the rabbit hole we have gone .