Crime in NZ
Jul 8th 2007, 6:30 pm
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Re: Crime in NZ
To give an idea of the crime, a selection of stories from todays paper.
Corruption within the ministry of health. Back hand payments to secure 50 million $$ contract.
A look at the devestation caused by a 15 year old driver who ploughed into five people leaving a four year old brain damaged and in a wheel chair.
Ex police commissioner Clint Rickards is up on 6 new disciplinary charges after he was aquited of 10 charges including rape, kiddnapping and indecent asault.
Home invasion by two armed intruders. Man called police 15 times before he was able to contact them as he stood with duct tape on his arms waiting to be killed.
Maa Nonu the All Black has been given a police diversion after breaching Wellington's liquor laws.
Five teenage males charged with assault after an unprovoked attacked seriously wounded two men on K-Road Auckland.
A teacher who posted pornographic and obscene pictures of himself on the internet begging for sex with 17-45 year olds has been allowed to keep on teaching.
Quirky piece on Judge Robert Murfitt who has in the past let offenders off disorderly conduct charges if they complete a 5km run in 1 hour.
Teens plan bomb revenge. Police have foiled a plot by youths ordering guns on the net, making bombs and targeting teachers for revenge.
NZ backpacker stamps on face of UK veteran from Afghanistan
And the one I find really sickening from a few weeks back :
High Court jury who found 32-year-old Maine Ngati and her partner Teusila
Faasisla not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, after the child
was beaten to death. Each was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail
for the manslaughter and will be up for parole in four years. These monsters
beat this defenceless 3 year old boy for days with an aluminium baseball
bat. His entire body was covered in bruises and his blood was found in
every inch of the house. Not only is this case preposterous but it sets
precedent for cases to come.
Of course NZ is still a pretty safe country. Amazing how reporting crime can be taken out of context in the scheme of things aye?
Corruption within the ministry of health. Back hand payments to secure 50 million $$ contract.
A look at the devestation caused by a 15 year old driver who ploughed into five people leaving a four year old brain damaged and in a wheel chair.
Ex police commissioner Clint Rickards is up on 6 new disciplinary charges after he was aquited of 10 charges including rape, kiddnapping and indecent asault.
Home invasion by two armed intruders. Man called police 15 times before he was able to contact them as he stood with duct tape on his arms waiting to be killed.
Maa Nonu the All Black has been given a police diversion after breaching Wellington's liquor laws.
Five teenage males charged with assault after an unprovoked attacked seriously wounded two men on K-Road Auckland.
A teacher who posted pornographic and obscene pictures of himself on the internet begging for sex with 17-45 year olds has been allowed to keep on teaching.
Quirky piece on Judge Robert Murfitt who has in the past let offenders off disorderly conduct charges if they complete a 5km run in 1 hour.
Teens plan bomb revenge. Police have foiled a plot by youths ordering guns on the net, making bombs and targeting teachers for revenge.
NZ backpacker stamps on face of UK veteran from Afghanistan
And the one I find really sickening from a few weeks back :
High Court jury who found 32-year-old Maine Ngati and her partner Teusila
Faasisla not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, after the child
was beaten to death. Each was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in jail
for the manslaughter and will be up for parole in four years. These monsters
beat this defenceless 3 year old boy for days with an aluminium baseball
bat. His entire body was covered in bruises and his blood was found in
every inch of the house. Not only is this case preposterous but it sets
precedent for cases to come.
Of course NZ is still a pretty safe country. Amazing how reporting crime can be taken out of context in the scheme of things aye?
Very unpleasant indeed but unfortunately not uncommon.
Jul 8th 2007, 11:44 pm
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Re: Crime in NZ
We had a grandstand view of crime in New Zealand this morning: at 5am to be precise. I heard a car driving fast and noisily along our road in a boy-racer stylie. Which surprised me as we live at the end of a cul-de-sac so you have to slow down. Screeched to a halt and then all went quiet. Then 'get out of the car and lie on the road' over a loud-hailer several times. We scrambled out of bed and there it was - right in front of our house. The young girl who got out of the car certainly didn't look old enough to be driving. The police were very cautious and seemed to my jaundiced eye (my sons used to watch a lot of cop programmes!) to do everything by the book. All over and done with in 5 minutes. I will have to read the local press and see what the full story was. I imagine the car was stolen and that she had taken a wrong-turn due to alcohol or drugs clouding her judgement.
Jul 9th 2007, 2:10 am
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http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NewsDispla...2/Default.aspx
Has anyone noticed how little press this is getting in New Zealand.
The media here is useless. If this was a case of a kiwi helping a british soldier we would have had wall to wall coverage with everything from interviews with his school teachers, his friends, his rugby team, and it would have lasted weeks!
Nope. Let's sweep this one under the carpet.
Has anyone noticed how little press this is getting in New Zealand.
The media here is useless. If this was a case of a kiwi helping a british soldier we would have had wall to wall coverage with everything from interviews with his school teachers, his friends, his rugby team, and it would have lasted weeks!
Nope. Let's sweep this one under the carpet.
Jul 9th 2007, 2:48 am
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Re: Crime in NZ
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NewsDispla...2/Default.aspx
Has anyone noticed how little press this is getting in New Zealand.
The media here is useless. If this was a case of a kiwi helping a british soldier we would have had wall to wall coverage with everything from interviews with his school teachers, his friends, his rugby team, and it would have lasted weeks!
Nope. Let's sweep this one under the carpet.
Has anyone noticed how little press this is getting in New Zealand.
The media here is useless. If this was a case of a kiwi helping a british soldier we would have had wall to wall coverage with everything from interviews with his school teachers, his friends, his rugby team, and it would have lasted weeks!
Nope. Let's sweep this one under the carpet.
Jul 9th 2007, 6:13 am
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Re: Crime in NZ
The police raids in the road around the corner and the constant hum of the police helicopter overhead was entertaining. I even witnessed a bag snatch in broad day light in the town centre.That was all in the hotspot of crime that is Papakura. Mind you we had no problems and our neighbours were really nice.
Jul 10th 2007, 10:50 pm
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I´m certainly surprised to find out, as Kiwi-child told, that Sydney and Melbourne have become such restless cities with ethnic gangland warfare and very rampant crime. Yet again, the Cronulla-riots in Sydney a couple years ago received worldwide attention and it was reported how the relations are very tense between the white Australians and especially immigrants from the Middle-East.
Jul 13th 2007, 5:13 pm
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How much is the crime-problem in NZ about different ethnic groups fighting one another? I mean it is a completely different kind of crime than a junkie looking for his fix. A junkie is probably the least racist person in the world; Anyone´s money will do.
Jul 13th 2007, 7:14 pm
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Time article, maybe a little shocking to would-be emigrants
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...640583,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...640583,00.html
Jul 13th 2007, 11:49 pm
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Just seen this week's statistics for burglaries/car thefts in Papakowhai. 0 and 0 again!! Woo hoo!!
Jul 16th 2007, 1:46 am
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectid=10451447
Another article about NZ gangs .
For me , only 150 years ago Maoris and Pacific islanders were still making slaves of defeated tribes and eating them, this is only a few generations back really (my Grandfather was born in the 19th century !). There is bound to be significant tribal (aka gang) behaviour remaining. Some have adopted US Black urban gangster youth culture (i.e a violent underachieving underclass one) because that is who they identify with , not the dull old culture museums of their ancestors. Fighting/Violence has always been a part of their culture, what is new is the money making, criminalising drugs "market"
Another article about NZ gangs .
For me , only 150 years ago Maoris and Pacific islanders were still making slaves of defeated tribes and eating them, this is only a few generations back really (my Grandfather was born in the 19th century !). There is bound to be significant tribal (aka gang) behaviour remaining. Some have adopted US Black urban gangster youth culture (i.e a violent underachieving underclass one) because that is who they identify with , not the dull old culture museums of their ancestors. Fighting/Violence has always been a part of their culture, what is new is the money making, criminalising drugs "market"
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