Labour govt 2020-23

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Crime up 19.1% in Auckland, and 20.5% in Waikato.
Sentences & fines more lenient.

Hope everyone is enjoying the social progress Jacinda and the Labour party have inflicted on NZ!

Comrade Cinders really is reducing N, oops Aotearoa to ashes!

Sharma on her and her mob!

[Bjauck]

Crime up 19.1% in Auckland, and 20.5% in Waikato.
Sentences & fines more lenient.

Hope everyone is enjoying the social progress Jacinda and the Labour party have inflicted on NZ!

Comrade Cinders really is reducing N, oops Aotearoa to ashes!

Sharma on her and her mob!

Gangs are definitely more brazen in S. Auckland. ‘The purchasing power of wages are falling; housing policy failure. Any connection with increased crime?

How many extra Covid casualties would there have been under National? How many families would have lost grandparents? A valid question to ask if they thought Labour lockdowns were too tough. Better Labour through covid than the alternative. Now the choice is not so clear imho.

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Gangs are definitely more brazen in S. Auckland. ‘The purchasing power of wages are falling; housing policy failure. Any connection with increased crime?

Hell BJ, you suck things dry!

An apologist for crime.

I Notice few mention poverty anymore, is that word out of fashion?

Try drugs as an excuse.

Is that National's fault?

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On TV3 tonight, armed forces suffering the highest attribution rate in decades.

Particularly high in the last 12 months as personnel leave for overseas as well as to the private sector.

Head of armed forces has taken the unprecedented step of appealing to the government on TV for help.

Same government which spent $1 billion on consultants, $56m on a bridge to nowhere, $60m+ on Pike River non-recovery and billions of dollars on wasteful spending.

Not surprisingly, neither Peeni Henare nor anyone else from the Ardern government was prepared to front or be interviewed.

Too busy supporting criminals & the gangs and giving taxpayers cost of living money to overseas recipients.

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In what may be their finest deed to date, David Parker and the government have moved to save NZ's most productive soils from urban encroachment.

Well done.

Better late than never.

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Head of armed forces has taken the unprecedented step of appealing to the government on TV for help.
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That shows the lack of maintenance that Chorus do on his hotline to the PM's office, and the nation's communication network in general.

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TVNZ the only MSM not to carry the scandal of the Northland ladies who were ‘outed’ as prostitutes by Ardern & Hipkins.

Says a lot about how state media has been corrupted by the spin mistress.

Vote her out & let’s lock her out!

You mean the Ladies who refused to cooperate with the police, and managed to get thrown out of an hotel ?

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An apologist for crime.

I Notice few mention poverty anymore, is that word out of fashion?

Try drugs as an excuse.
upset some with a vested interest in
Is that National's fault?

I didn't say that falling real wages and housing policy failure were National's fault. National have not been in government recently. I am certainly not an apologist for crime. It is a scourge. I certainly do think we as a society need to more to tackle the causes and drivers of crime BEFORE crime is committed, as well as dealing with the criminals AFTER crime has been committed.

Obviously I understand this will upset some, who think they have a vested interest in society and the economy remaining unchanged, and who are happy with only toughening processes after the commission of crime. I prefer that there would be fewer victims in the first place as well as a tough justice system, which hopefully would also act as a deterrent.

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Amen to that.

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Crime up 19.1% in Auckland, and 20.5% in Waikato.
Sentences & fines more lenient.

Hope everyone is enjoying the social progress Jacinda and the Labour party have inflicted on NZ!

Comrade Cinders really is reducing N, oops Aotearoa to ashes!

Sharma on her and her mob!

The Police & Courts act independently of any govt. Sentences & fines are imposed by the Courts, not the govt & there hasn't been any reduction in sentencing guidelines so there's no point blaming the PM, that's not going to achieve anything. You're just spitting into the wind.

I know, lets get National to fix the problem, after all they were so brilliant when the crime rate was rising under National govt, tendering out our prison services to private for profit company Serco to run prisons, resulting in prisoners virtually taking over control of the prisons from Corrections, engaging in online Fight Clubs between prisoners, intimidating understaffed corrections officers into compliance as well as gifting a wonderful new supply of our youth for gang recruitment. It was so out of control, prisoners had to join a gang for protection.
And under Crusher Collins, how many boy racer cars were crushed, that's right, just the one!