Kate Hawkesby: Auckland businesses have sent angry letter to PM about crime

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 19, 2021 · 2m

I talked at the start this week about crime in the CBDs and how it’s on the rise, dangerously so.

Businesses are exasperated, retailers are at their wit’s end, city dwellers are fed up.

And it’s not like the people running these inner-city business associations haven’t been agitating for action here.

They have, as I said earlier this week, been flagging this for more than a year now.

It‘s not new. And yesterday, frustrated beyond measure, central Auckland business associations sent an open letter to the PM.

It barely got media coverage, which was annoying but not surprising, it was after all…