Kate Hawkesby: Until we turn around our attitude to crime, stats will continue to go the wrong way

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 5, 2023 · 3m

I think what that new NZ Herald poll at the weekend on crime tells us is what we already knew, the Government's completely out of touch.

It will be this, among other things, that will see them lose the election come October. Despite telling us over and over again that crime is down and that we all feel safer, you can only lie and feed us so much BS before your cover gets blown.

And as it turns out, that turned up in the form of actual data over the weekend where a new survey polling New Zealanders showed in fact we feel less safe today than we did five years ago.

This is not news to us, we…