Bad news if you’re emigrating to New Zealand thinking it’s a safe place to raise children, it’s not as safe and crime free as you’ve been led to believe More than 30 schools were evacuated en masse in the last 2 days after a spate of bomb threats. A school bus has been wrecked by…
It’s not just West Auckland that’s suffering from street violence. A man was critically injured in a beating in Havelock North, Hawkes Bay, in the early hours of yesterday morning. Police have released a photograph of two men they’d like to talk to in relation to the attack, which is said to have been unprovoked. The injured man is gravely ill in…
The Dom Post has today reported on the robbery of another small business in New Zealand, this time a dairy (NZ vernacular for a small convenience store) in the small town of Havelock North. The report in itself is surprising given that there are restrictions on crime reports that are released to the press. It…
But it’s someone else’s problem, according a Victoria University survey, Not in my backyard? Crime in the Neighbourhood, conducted by Institute of Criminology director Associate Professor Michael Rowe. This is taken from an write up by Alanah May Ericson in today’s NZ Herald newspaper: “New Zealanders can recognise crime in other areas, but prefer to…
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