Crimes in NZ reach new low under Labour

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It's disappointing people like yourself have such a poor grasp of basic civics, & must be so frustrating for the police who are doing a tough thankless job, when you criticise the Minister of Police & by association the entire Police force, about Court sentencing issues which they have absolutely zero control over.

The Police can only catch, arrest & charge criminals, then hand them over to the Courts for Judges to decide what to do with them.
Your beef is with the Judicial system & of course as most people know, Judges act independently of the Police or MP's or Ministers who must not influence their sentencing in individual cases.

Suggesting the Minister of Police will issue these culprits a "wet bus ticket" shows a complete lack of understanding of how our judicial system works & is ridiculous. All the police can do is present people who have committed crimes to the Courts & press charges.

I know judges want to keep these young adults out of prison if possible as once they get into that institution they are virtually certain to become career criminals & at some stage they have to be let out back into society.
It's not easy but sometimes if you give people second chances & even 3rd chances like current National MP Sam Uffindale, they are much more likely to turn their life around.

No-one said anything about Police issuing Wet Bus Tickets - did they ?

Obviously the wrong signals are being sent out for this sort of thing to be repeating daily with
widespread crimewaves .. even you should be intelligent enough to see that

Or would giving our free computers and laptops to all be a solution ?

Remove from them what they have excess of -- Spare Time

Appropriate that Spare Time to Compulsary Work where they can't get into trouble or wouldn't try.

At least that offers better solution to learning something meaningful

Viable solution ?