Spike in youth crime ?
"The headlines asserting a 'youth crime spike' are not backed up by the current hard data. The stats don’t show a spike in youth crime, let alone a wave, swell, or tsunami.
Outside of highly visible headline-generating crimes they show the opposite - and Ric Stevens Open Justice Project reporting brought to light the ways current coverage could be distorting perceptions of what is actually going on.
Others have also presented a perspective missing many of the stories on youth crime so far.
Tim McKinnel in 'Crime: Need vs Greed' by Octopus Pictures, screening on TVNZ 1 in October 2022.Tim McKinnel in 'Crime: Need vs Greed' by Octopus Pictures, screening on TVNZ 1 in October 2022. Photo: supplied
Later this month in TVNZ’s Tuesday night Documentary New Zealand slot, former police detective Tim McKinnel investigates how white collar crime is often unreported and unpunished but young people are locked into cycles of crime".
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Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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63.3% Summer
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35.4% Winter
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1.3% Other - I'll share below
New Year, New Questions You Won’t Solve!
I get smaller every time I take a bath.
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