Kate Hawkesby: When are we going to snap out of the ideology that crime will solve itself?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 25, 2022 · 2m

It's depressing the amount of crime we’re seeing these days isn't it?

Racist attacks, brazen ram raids, people getting shot or stabbed or beaten up, it’s actually disgusting and not representative of who we are, collectively, as New Zealanders.

And there's still a lack of action on this low-rent crowd of trouble makers.

I see retailers are now so stressed about lack of action on burglaries and repeat raids that they’re suffering ‘very high levels of anxiety’, according to one Business Association.

And I think it’s a twofold problem. On the one hand, raids and burglaries are still occurring…