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Ryan Bridge: Is the patch ban going to solve the underlaying causes of gang crime? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Everyone hates gangs unless you're in them. You hate them
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  Speaker 1: because they intimidate, they cause misery, they beat their wives,
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  Speaker 1: they do all sorts of awful things. But I just
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  Speaker 1: worry that the gang patch ban in and of itself,
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  Speaker 1: it's not really going to solve the underlying causes of it,
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  Speaker 1: is it? And what I worry about is the waste
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  Speaker 1: that could go into this, the waste of time, police energy,
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  Speaker 1: and resources running after every time Betty sees a gang patch,
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  Speaker 1: she rings in one one one, Oh, I've seen the
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  Speaker 1: macro mob, which is fine because I know it's intimidating.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just I'm not being disparaging of Betty. However,
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  Speaker 1: that is going to tie up some police time which
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  Speaker 1: could be better spent solving an actual crime. The other
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  Speaker 1: problem here is the design of the insignia the gang patch.
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  Speaker 1: So at the moment the police know the designs of
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  Speaker 1: each of the patches or mobs patches, what they're apparently
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  Speaker 1: doing is going down through and making subtle changes, adding
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  Speaker 1: words like mani fenua or changing this logo or that logo.
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  Speaker 1: So sure, you will take the patch, you will collect
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  Speaker 1: it as evidence, you will take it to court, and
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  Speaker 1: the lawyers will argue it's different. I mean, where are
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  Speaker 1: we now with our legal bills and our legal aid bills,
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  Speaker 1: and what have we actually achieved in doing that? Have
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  Speaker 1: we reduced crime or have we increased the cost of
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  Speaker 1: administering administering a fashion police policy. You know, that's my
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  Speaker 1: only concern. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge.
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