Kate Hawkesby: Will more support for youth offenders really help?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 17, 2022 · 3m

I'm wondering how long we're going to turn a blind eye to youth crime for.

ACT came out with a plan to try tackle it in its law-and-order policy the other day, but that's about it.

Ironically, as David Seymour was on the street talking about how to tackle youth crime, 5 storeys above him on the side of a building, youths were busy tagging.

But it's no longer just an Auckland problem - we had the Palmerston North mall attack the other day - and the Queensgate mall in Lower Hutt is also proving an issue.

There've been a raft of brutal assaults around there, school students being targeted for…