Be sure to pack protection when attending rugby matches in New Zealand, there’s more to fear than the throat slitting Kapa o Pango haka, because the gangs are on the warpath and their weapon of choice is a shotgun. Today’s Herald is carrying a story about a Mongrel Mob shooting at a rugby crowd in…
This week on Television New Zealand’s Close Up: “Reporter Jehan Casinader investigates what life is like in one of our toughest towns. Sex for drugs and organised fights – and we’re talking about teenagers. What can be done to help?.” The show hasn’t even aired yet and no one know what the town is, but…
. When it’s a flee. Or rather, a chase is not a chase, neither may it be called a pursuit. In New Zealand its been re-branded “fleeing.” Leaving aside the obvious grammatical difficulties this will cause, its little more than a game of semantics when the outcomes of a police pursuit policy twenty years out…
Yesterday a middle aged man was shot in the back as he filled-up at a service station in Wairoa, what makes the crime particularly disturbing is that it happened during a busy time of day and other people could’ve been hurt or killed in the attack. A RadioNZ report said it was only a matter…
25 July 2010 (scroll down for updates & keep checking back) Remember how the Palmerston North Wikipedia page was censored to remove references to crime because it was making overseas investors and professionals shy away from moving to the town?; and of how gangs are now euphemistically called “groups” in some news reports?; and how…
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