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Not a game

Written By: - Date published: 3:56 pm, October 17th, 2008 - 46 comments
Categories: crime, election 2008, national, police, slippery, spin - Tags:

National has a press release out blaming Labour for a supposed increase in assaults on police. Now, there are more people and more police than ever before, so all things being equal there will be more assaults, but it would be a concern if the rate of assaults had increased. In fact, the rate on assaults per police officer has remained steady for the past decade. While every assault is bad, at least things are not getting worse.

(sources: Police annual reports)

If National really cared about solving problems in our society they would not try mislead us with these pathetic tricks.

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46 comments on “Not a game”

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  1. How many Maoris have been killed by Caucasian policemen in the over 100 years of the NewZealand police force? and how many of them Maoris were armed with a weapon at the time?

    He was not dead for breaking glass, he was dead for swinging a bat at an officers head.

  2. Those on the right wouldn’t wouldn’t call a Policeman a pig.

  3. randal 39

    those on the right are pigs.

  4. randal 41

    here pig pig pig. here pig pig pig pig. here pig pig pig.

  5. randal 42

    I dont like pigs but I like bacon!

  6. I would like to fry yours!!!

  7. randal 44

    have you considered therapy d4j?

  8. randal 45

    anyway I am getting tired of trading insults with fleas so go back to the post by “cha” , read, come back and say something relevant please

    capcha: prefer monday…me too…tonight seems to be the maddies ni!ght out

  9. Strings 46

    Strange really. That graph would produce an upward trendline if I’m not mistaken!

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