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Manish Thakkar: Dairy and Business Owners Group Chairperson says they're seeing less violent crime · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right. The government's very happy patting itself on the back,
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  Speaker 1: although they did hasten to add that these numbers are volatile.
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  Speaker 1: We won't get official numbers through until June. But in
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  Speaker 1: terms of victims of crime, this is the Crime and
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  Speaker 1: Victims survey. They reckon there have been one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven thousand victims of crime in the year to February.
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  Speaker 1: The target was one hundred and sixty five by twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine. So on these numbers targets twenty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: fewer by twenty twenty nine, they're already at twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand fewer. Does this stack up? Dairy and Business Owners
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  Speaker 1: Group chairperson MANIESE. Thucker is with us this morning. Manish,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning. Good to have you on the found.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, thank you. Does this sound right to you? Minish?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: What are you saying?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? So, first of all, on behalf of the daily
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  Speaker 2: and honors across the country. I want to sincerely congregulate
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  Speaker 2: the coalition governments for taking minnipus to tackle the violence time.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think these numbers make sense? You're seeing
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  Speaker 1: less violent crime in your in your shops.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, number of clients has declined. Yeah. So according to
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  Speaker 2: police data for the year ending thirty thirty first January
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, retail assaults have declined by two percent
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  Speaker 2: and the first state seems a little bit modest number,
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  Speaker 2: but still it is sixty eight fewer crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. What do you think is making the difference, Manish.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is making a lot different mister. Yeah, governments
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  Speaker 2: still need to do more. We are still behind. Were
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  Speaker 2: forty eight percent compared to twenty nineteen and twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a good thing. It's going in the right direction, Manisha.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate your time this morning, Manishataka, who is with the
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  Speaker 1: Dairy and Business Owners Group.
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