Garrick Tremain: Security

 Here is Garrick Tremain's cartoon commentary on ram-raid prevention! 

Heather du Plessis-Allan: It's getting tiring pretending crime isn't happening when it clearly is

Tell you what I'm getting quite sick of: constantly being told by Government ministers and people who want to be nice to criminals that crime is tracking down.  

You hear it all the time. Every time someone pitches an idea for how to crack down on crime, like the ACT Party with the juvenile detention centre idea yesterday, up pops a critic with a piece of data to tell you that there's nothing to worry about.

You're imagining it, crime's not as bad as you think, ram raids are falling, youth crime and retail crime is down, the cops are winning.

Mike Butler: A modest ram-raid proposal

Another Saturday, yet another ram-raid, this time at Liquorland in Mount Wellington, Auckland.(1) Of course it is too early to see whether the Better Pathways plan to send ram-raiders aged under 14 years to a social well-being board for wrap-around support but no one is holding their breath for that to work.

Ram-raiding by children is evidence that the administration of law and order in New Zealand has malfunctioned and, in this instance, police, courts, and politicians have all failed.

Can this problem be solved? Any attempt to stop youth ramraiding faces two issues: Who pays for bollards and damage to shops and loss of stock, and what sort of consequences should the young perpetrators face?