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# Demand the Debate on Gangs and Crime
- URL: https://goodoil.news/demand-the-debate-on-gangs-and-crime/
- Published: 2021-07-18T19:50:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-18T09:55:56.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: Crime, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

**Judith Collins**  
Leader

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Under Labour, New Zealand is less safe as gang numbers explode. Gangs are becoming more powerful, while the Government focuses on making apologies for criminals rather than arresting them. [You can read more here](https://www.national.org.nz/demand-the-debate-on-gangs-and-crime?e=96faa3b0983e4aa00625b4fed9d85727&utm%5Fsource=nationalparty&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=gangs%5Fcrime%5Fdtd%5F18%5Fjuly%5F21%5F3&n=1).

On a weekly basis, we learn of increased gang-related gun crime, shootings and escalating addiction, particularly in our provinces.

**Under Labour we have seen:**

- Gang membership increase by 50%, leaving New Zealanders feeling less safe, and criminals more emboldened.
- The number of serious assaults has more than doubled leaving our streets more violent.
- Failure to deliver on their promise of 1800 more Police over three years.
- Failure to deliver on their promise of 700 new Police targeting organised crime.

And on top of this, we now have a Government actively working to coddle up to gangs – rather than hold them to account.  
  
**National will not stand by whilst our streets become less safe, and gangs continue to become more emboldened, peddling meth and perpetrating violence on our streets.**

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**It’s time the Government was open and transparent with New Zealanders about their agenda when it comes to gangs and organised crime.**  
  
It’s time we Demand the Debate about gangs and organised crime in New Zealand so that we can keep New Zealanders safe.  

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