Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson It’s no wonder organised crime is running amok with new data showing the gangs are recruiting faster than Police. The number of gang members on the National Gang List has exploded since Labour took office, with 2,663 more people on the list since
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson Thank goodness the FBI is cracking down on New Zealand gangs since our Government has gone soft on them. It took a major international operation to lead to 25 arrests and 900 charges. Operation Trojan Shield was led by the FBI and co-ordinated
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust A parliamentary petition has been started gaining support to stop courts from using home detention or sentence discounts for serious and violent offences against children. “New Zealand’s justice system has completely lost its compass now seeing regular cases of serious child
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As I’ve asked before, why aren’t we spitting on teachers? That, after all, is what has happened to priests, even in Ireland. In the media, priests are continually painted as predators in robes. Jokes about priests and altar boys are the stock-in-trade of every second-rate
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust Official Information Act data shows there has been more ‘liquid-ecstasy drugs’ seized by Police and Customs in the first three months of this year than in the entirety of 2019. “The National Drug Intelligence Bureau released data to the Sensible Sentencing
Dear Editor A work colleague of mine was talking to the local E Tu union rep Red Middlemiss. He was saying some local gang members (don’t know if they are Black Power or Mongrel Mob) were getting paid 100k per annum government funding to run counselling services. I don’
Angela Shanahan mercatornet.com Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years, The Spectator (British and Australian editions) for over 10 years, and formerly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and the
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust If found guilty, the two ferals from Flaxmere charged for “one of the worst child abuse cases” need to not only face the maximum prison time possible but they should not be afforded the usual weak sentence reductions from the likes of
You had to be listening hard through the word soup to hear that the Prime Minister believes that you don’t need a target to reduce violent crime, all you have to do is reduce the prison population. Hon Judith Collins: Why does the Government have a target to reduce
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson The Government has today announced it will spend $70 million to go softer on crime than it already is. This funding includes 12 Iwi Community Panels, known as Te Pae Oranga. These panels give offenders who commit serious crimes like stabbing a police officer
Revelations Associate Justice Minister Willie Jackson met with the Mongrel Mob at gang headquarters and Black Power in the Beehive on multiple occasions indicate that, far from hostile, Government relations with gangs are practically friendly, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Gangs are recruiting faster than the police, violent
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The revelation that Associate Minister of Justice Willie Jackson has met with gang members as a ‘part of his job’ shows the total misdirection this government is heading in with justice and law-and-order, says Darroch Ball, co-leader of Sensible
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson Associate Justice Minister Willie Jackson has been told by the Prime Minister one of his key focusses should be “engagement with gangs.” Willie Jackson is taking on that role with gusto, meeting with Black Power three times and the Mongrel Mob at least once
