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Our society has been allowed to get to this point. No respect for authority, no respect for elders, no respect for the community. This isn’t what New Zealand used to be like. nzherald.co.nz/nz/hamilton-as…

Getting too used to police walking around with semi automatic weapons? Just another day now? newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala…

Over 100 previous convictions. Jailed in 2017 for accessory to manslaughter. Bashes partner. Guilty of injuring with intent, threatening to kill, assault with weapon. Sentenced to 4 months community detention. Judge says it’s a ‘reward’. nzherald.co.nz/northern-advoc…

More ‘well being’, ‘hugs’, ’support’, and ‘excuses’. Not one focus on accountability, justice, or consequences. Let’s just keep doing what we’ve been doing and expect something different. Genius. newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…

So he says the problem is the consequences aren’t acting as a deterrent…and his answer is to refer these teen ram raiders to “community wellbeing boards”. They are straight taking the mickey out of us all.

Right! Send them straight to the community well-being board! newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala…

Want to hear meaningless sound bites from the minister about the stats showing a ludicrous ‘reduction in youth crime’? newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/kerre-w…

If people can’t see that ‘youth crime dropping’ and ‘number of youth who end up in court is dropping’ are two different things then I don’t know where to begin.

What exactly is this government doing to stop this? They no longer have any excuse to not have acted. They have literally done nothing. nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-cr…

So, they’ve changed from crime ‘spike’ to crime ‘wave’. I wonder how long it takes for them to realise this is now the new normal. newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala…

Wounding with intent to injure…gets home detention. nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-tod…

Sensible Sentencing Trust's Darroch Ball said the sentence in Sarah's case was unacceptable but not unusual. "This is the result of how offender-centric the nature of the system has become." nzherald.co.nz/nz/teen-who-fe…

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There’s nothing more antiseptic than saying I told you so. But I did.

Hands up who thinks we need to bring back some old school hard nosed policing…?

How can bollards be a preventative measure when you can’t get funding for them unless you’ve already been robbed…?

Empty promises of justice and blatant grandstanding by a Prime Minister after a tragedy has occurred are meaningless when no one listened to the victim, the community, or pleas for something to be done before an innocent member of the public was killed.