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guilty...yes or no |
Posted by: heisenberg - 03-07-2025, 06:50 AM - Forum: General Discussion
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heres a few, feel free to add more
Scott Watson........no   i remember at the time a off duty cop saw the missing boat but there has been silence from him since
David Tamahere ......no    the cops said he stole the watch and gave it to his son but when the skeleton was found it still had the watch
Mark Lundie.....yes   there is a issue with timing but he is a terrible actor
David Bain.... not sure on that one
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The "tough on crime" nonsense |
Posted by: Lilith7 - 01-07-2025, 12:14 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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Every so often one of our delightful govts will decide to 'get tough' on crime, & bring ever harsher penalties. Generally it does gain votes; no one likes crime & no one wants more of it.
And yet statistics show that, by voting foe those harsher penalties, that is exactly what they're voting for. And really, you'd expect politicians of all stripes to be aware of that since surely a part of their job is to check these things.
So in voting for  yet harsher penalties, either those politicians are deeply ignorant - or they're not averse to potentially ruining lives in order to appear 'tough on crime' in order to gain support.
I think its high time that we set about educating high schools pupils & Uni students about the effects of harsher penalties.
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/...recidivism.
"As someone who works in the criminal justice sector, the recent policy proposals by major political parties make we wonder whether politicians are more concerned about appearing hard on crime than they are with reducing criminal offending.
This long-standing punitive approach to crime withstands the plethora of evidence and research that disproves its effectiveness for reducing re-offending. On the contrary, criminal justice experts and statisticians have consistently said harsher sentencing increases recidivism".
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