Tim Dower: How many deaths is it going to take for Govt to recognise the facts of the situation?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 24, 2022 · 1m

We all heard the warnings; someone's going to get killed if we don't crack down on the ram raiders and brazen dairy hold-ups.

And this week it happened.

Eight in the evening at the end of another long day at the superette providing a convenience service in Sandringham.

One of the locals who spoke to the Herald at a gathering of 200 or so said this ‘the whole dynamic of Auckland is changing now’.

Say that again.

Spin the numbers whatever way you like, but what's obvious to anyone is there's a significant wave of this time of crime right now.

Just before five this morning I heard a businessman…