Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The announcement that prisoners are now going to ‘receive compensation for a crime that’s been committed’ is a slap in the face for the many thousands of victims of crime who struggle to get a cent of reparation from those very offenders
David Seymour ACT leader Compensation for prisoners at Waikeria Prison following a riot is an insult to hardworking Kiwis who pay their taxes. These prisoners are in jail because they hurt people and damaged property. Their victims got no compensation, so why are we paying compensation for them? This is
Labour’s Te Pae Oranga programme is failing to hold offenders to account with 59% of people being sent to the alternative justice panels failing to complete the programme, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Alternative resolutions have a place for low level offending, however the Government also needs
Yesterday Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis appeared before the Justice Select Committee to brief the committee about the 92 per cent increase in assaults against Corrections Officers that has taken place since he became Minister, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Instead of providing answers, the Minister offered excuses
The hit movie Joker was not just great cinema, it was often eerily familiar to those of us of a certain age. The film draws heavily on the milieu of late 70s and early 80s New York, when the pre-Giuliani city was a wasteland of crime and dereliction. Martin Scorcese’
It’s an old cliche: “no jury would convict him/her”. In the case of of Gary Plauché, it seems likely that no jury in his state of Louisiana would have. Born Leon Gary Plauché in 1945, he led a fairly ordinary life: he served in the USAF, rising to
Nicole McKee ACT Justice spokesperson Why are Police shutting down streets, stopping Kiwis going about their everyday lives instead of moving an intimidating gang procession along? It says so much about the soft on crime Labour Government that gang members are taking over Central Auckland – facilitated by the Police. The
Did you hear about the racially-motivated mass shooting in the American South, the other day? I mean, you must have. Dylan Roof shot nine black people six years ago, and the media are still yammering about “far right terrorism” at every chance they get. So when a white man shoots
What is Minister of Police Poto Williams going to do about the dangerous and anti-social behaviour of gang funeral processions, given this now appears to be a recurring issue? National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown asks. Police in Auckland have sent out a notification that they are expecting a funeral
It’s funny how the mainstream media’s mind-reading abilities just come and go, when it comes to terrorism. There are times the media are able to divine instantly a terrorist’s motives. Even if that means flatly contradicting even what the terrorist says their motives were. Other times, though,
Darroch Ball Co-leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust. Apparently, Newshub had the jump on everybody this week when they ‘revealed’ statistics that showed a massive increase in the number of inmates bashing corrections officers. The problem is that the numbers and data they reported on showing the dramatic increase are nothing
Neville Dodd President Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. After what has been described as a knee jerk reaction to the March 2019 massacre, it is now clear New Zealand’s legal gun owners were not and are not the problem. It is social media that the authorities should
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust The National Party’s ‘five-point plan’ to curb the rise in inmates assaulting prison officers doesn’t go far enough and continues to ignore the Corrections Association’s plea for the introduction of harsher penalties, says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust.
It is no wonder the Government’s media release about the latest New Zealand Crime and Victimisation Survey led with a small decrease in burglaries as this is where the good news stops, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Behind the celebratory headline the data that fits with what
The National Party won’t sit idly by while the violence in our prisons and the number of assaults on corrections officers continues to increase, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. National has today launched a five point plan to help reduce the violence experienced in our prisons. “Under
