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Ryan Bridge: The new Auckland police station won't magically solve all of our problems · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. A new police station in Central
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  Speaker 1: Auckland is good news, as were recent stats showing crime
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  Speaker 1: in the city is way down. But where are all
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  Speaker 1: the wackos and the nutjobs going to go next? That's
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  Speaker 1: my question. You know the ones I'm talking about. They
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  Speaker 1: strut around holding their pants up with one hand, a
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  Speaker 1: menacing look in their eye, shouting and ranting and raving
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  Speaker 1: and lunging at people. They're pissing in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the street during the day, or fighting each other. Once
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  Speaker 1: the city is secured, where did these people go next?
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  Speaker 1: Parnell Ponsonby on a bus to Westfield New Market. If
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  Speaker 1: the idea is to make a city feel safe for people,
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  Speaker 1: then more cops will help do that. What they won't
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  Speaker 1: do is make these intimidating people disappear altogether like some houdiniact.
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  Speaker 1: One of the biggest problems we have as a lack
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  Speaker 1: of community drug and alcohol rehab centers in this country,
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  Speaker 1: affordable or free ones, and our correction system doesn't correct people.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, it's spent. We learned this this week, four
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars of our money on rehab programs. Guess
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  Speaker 1: how much they reduced reoffending by guests less than two
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  Speaker 1: percent on most programs. So yes, we should celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we're getting more cop shops, gang patch bands,
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  Speaker 1: and supposedly harshest sentences for violence because the last lot
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  Speaker 1: went a bit soft on that, But we shouldn't kid
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  Speaker 1: ourselves that it will magically solve all of our problems
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  Speaker 1: or those of the whack jobs on Queen Street. For
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