The Government, now in full panic mode as they head towards election defeat, rounds up all the stuff they look weak on and then sets about making announcements about how what they have been doing for six years doesn’t count.
That's what led to getting part two of the law and order reset.
The trick is to spread the news so you get, in this case, three days worth of headlines. Plus, the best is first, which is why announcement number two was so sad.
It unfortunately doesn’t bode well for thought bubble number three tomorrow.
Anyway, thought bubble number two was to build some new youth justice centres. Two of them. They want to separate out 17-year-olds from younger kids.
It's not really original and something they could have done anytime in the past six years.
But guess what? They didn’t.
So, when are these new facilities going to get built? Answer - there is no timeframe. So it's a sort-of KiwiBuild approach to youth justice.
Then, enter Kelvin “let them out and give them ankle bracelets” Davis.
He is changing a couple of things. One is that police can automatically refer a kid to a family group conference after a ram raid, as opposed, I suppose, to just letting them go.
But I am wondering, given our experience of these conferences where nothing happens, whether that actually changes crime, or just produces a lot more conferences?
And Kelvin's other big reveal was that young thugs can be searched. This was a surprise because, call me foolish and old fashioned, but I had assumed all thugs get searched automatically.
But given they weren't and, as it turns out, the rules say basically no one could, guess what? A whole bunch of illegal stuff got smuggled in.
Who would have thought?
So, we got an announcement of some building with no deadline and more meetings.
Watch the ram raids stop and the criminals quake.
Or not.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
It unfortunately doesn’t bode well for thought bubble number three tomorrow.
Anyway, thought bubble number two was to build some new youth justice centres. Two of them. They want to separate out 17-year-olds from younger kids.
It's not really original and something they could have done anytime in the past six years.
But guess what? They didn’t.
So, when are these new facilities going to get built? Answer - there is no timeframe. So it's a sort-of KiwiBuild approach to youth justice.
Then, enter Kelvin “let them out and give them ankle bracelets” Davis.
He is changing a couple of things. One is that police can automatically refer a kid to a family group conference after a ram raid, as opposed, I suppose, to just letting them go.
But I am wondering, given our experience of these conferences where nothing happens, whether that actually changes crime, or just produces a lot more conferences?
And Kelvin's other big reveal was that young thugs can be searched. This was a surprise because, call me foolish and old fashioned, but I had assumed all thugs get searched automatically.
But given they weren't and, as it turns out, the rules say basically no one could, guess what? A whole bunch of illegal stuff got smuggled in.
Who would have thought?
So, we got an announcement of some building with no deadline and more meetings.
Watch the ram raids stop and the criminals quake.
Or not.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
An immediate requirement is a campaign to counter the "imagine decolonisation" mantra spread by seditous activists throughout maoridom but interpreted as "reject colonisation" and applied by maori at all levels including and especially youth. It justifies doing exactly as one pleases with no regard to colonist introduced laws for conventional civilised behaviour. Whanau coferences are of no use as all now indoctrinated. Home detention is farcical. With extended whanau and a myriad mates it is no penalty. Many retired persons and handicapped non workers lead far more isolated lives for decades.
What I would like to know is how proficient are these offenders in school basics ? As I endlessly quote ,from US Education Dept. statistics two out of three students who do not achieve in reading will end up in jail or on welfare. I quote this, ad nauseam,,because our Ministry of mis-Education are dead certain, because of their entrenched ideology, that SES is the determining factor in school failure and crime not their 'wonderful' education system. That is perhaps why most student teachers are overloaded with indoctrination in sociological theory, so they can have excuses for their, now scientifically proven wrong, teaching methods and content.
I did read a Ministry of Justice report, recently
about youth offenders which was outstanding in its absence in any mention of school achievement but waffled on about child development. Here is another distracting field of study which has eclipsed real pedagogy (teaching methods) in our schools.
I would also like to know whether offenders are given remedial reading and maths.
or is spending for offenders' rehabilitation just on endless family conferences ?
I have a very different perspective on who the criminals are in all this, but then I have spent my entire adult life fighting reading wars and destructive education ideologies.
It must be clear, rewording and reinstalling the old S54 of the Crimes Act to clarify what parents and those acting with good reason in loco parentis can do, when it is vital to correct the behaviour of children in their care. Rewarding them with well intentioned kindness has been an abject failure. The avalanche of serious criminal misconduct is distressing the social structure of Godzone. A smack on the back of the hand when a child is young by, caring parents, or an open handed whack only on the outside of the thigh. Criminal disobedience, misbehaviour should empower those caring parents or persons acting in their place to inflict severely, 6 whacks with a specified cane to ensure a penalty is fully understood to have been imposed, with the sanction of the law. We owe it to the coming generation to display that ‘We”ve had enough.’ Let’s halt the assumption that young offenders can be excused for thinking ‘There’ll be no down side to their misconduct’. Politicians ‘Get a grip’. Barry ANDERSON, Tauranga
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