For those interested the breakdown by ethnicity for homicide victims for the last ten years is:
- Māori 35%
- European 27%
- Unknown 22%
- Pacific 6.8%
- Asian 3.5%
- Indian 3.1%
- Middle Eastern 1.5%
- African 0.5%
- Hispanic 0.1%
- Fijian 0.1%
And the breakdown for homicide offenders is:
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
- Māori 48%
- European 30%
- Unknown 1.4%
- Pacific 15.0%
- Asian 2.6%
- Indian 2.9%
- African 0.1%
- Hispanic 0.1%
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
3 comments:
The proportions for one particular ethnicity (maori) are certainly skewed when proportional population representation is taken into account. Must be about time for colonisation to take another hit as a causative factor.
Farar's research simply mirrors the public knowledge that Māori are overrepresented at every stage in the criminal justice system.
Māori are 37% of people proceeded against by Police, 45% of people convicted, and 52% of people in prison.(Department of Justice own website). This is despite persons identifying as Māori being only approximately 15% of the New Zealand population.
There must be something deeply flawed in the Maori worldview that leads to these outcomes.
Some may call it Tikanga. But whatever you attribute it to, it's setting up a massive bow-wave that's restraining the growth of our economy and as a consequence, our Nation. It cannot be tolerated.
Right now the data suggests our measurable productivity gap is race-based. But why? If there's spare money to fund research into whether playing whale song at a Kauri tree will prevent Kauri die-back, then there has to be funding available to research why Maori do bad things. And no, institutional racism is not the answer. So lets see some reputable social science being performed here. Because much to the consternation of Hobson's Pledge, we are not all one people. But it would be helpful to know how much we differ.
Could it be that there is indeed useful scientific data that explains these differences, but under no circumstances is it permitted to be published?
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