Deconstructing the government’s report card

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1. Grant 1

   7 July 2015 at 1:11 pm

   Hah! Falling crime indeed? All the crims just relocated to Counties were they reported as something else. We’re on first names basis with the Eagle Crew, they spend so much time over our place. Every day has 6 or more emergency vehicles within earshot.
   Methinks they just pick the numbers they want NOT the true ones.
   • Matthew Whitehead 1.1

     7 July 2015 at 2:22 pm

     It looks like there’s been a recent trend towards downplaying reporting of crime- it looks good because your minor incidents go off the books, and your major crimes become minor incidents. Even if police are exercising discretion more and deciding it’s less necessary to charge people, the incidents should still be reported.
2. adam 2

   7 July 2015 at 1:23 pm

   I made a comment on my work yesterday on the Greek thread. I’m not sure how to link that.

   Today, this morning – as the weather so bad, we just dealt with medical and housing issues. On that front alone, this government is a failure.

   One that they need to be slammed on is domestic violence – as they have gone beyond crisis creation.

   May I just say, thanks goodness for the Auckland Action Against Poverty – and I know I’ve said it before to them on the phone – but let me say here – you people are wonderful, and thank you for coming to West Auckland, even if it is only one day a week. It gives people hope.
   • Molly 2.1

     7 July 2015 at 9:46 pm

     … Right-click the date and time under any comment and you will then be able to “Copy Link Location” for that specific comment. Then use that as your link.
     • adam 2.1.1

       7 July 2015 at 10:14 pm

       Wicked, Thank you Molly.
3. Keith 3

   7 July 2015 at 2:25 pm

   Does anyone else find it amazing after sizeable police budget cuts totalling a third of the 2008 budget under Collins and Tolley, and a frozen budget ever since, that they have managed to reduce crime by a similar amount? I mean it is equivalent of turning water into wine! It’s a bona fide miracle and yet this smoke and mirrors exercise has escaped any form of critical thinking (sure we don’t have a MSM worth mentioning)

   Of course it is only logical that total crime reporting will drop if police officers, who report crime as a proactive part of their jobs, are unable to do their job because of budget cuts

   In this illusion National are using an old adage as policy, “if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Apply that to crime, its still all around only no one is doing anything about it so it ceases to exist! The trouble is this façade will come back to haunt us if its not starting to already!
   • tc 3.1

     7 July 2015 at 3:33 pm

     The same way health looks ‘OK’ despite being about 25% underfunded now after 6+ years of team shonkey.

     Easy when you reclassify what consitutes who is on a waiting list and gag the senior levels by stacking DHB boards then flog the clinical staff using aggressive management practices. ‘Shazam’ look at how well we’re all doing.
4. McFlock 4

   7 July 2015 at 4:21 pm

   Juking the stats.

   What really pisses me off about it is that it puts pressure on the next administration to do similar, otherwise they get accused of e.g. rising crime even though they’re simply reporting its true levels so they can then address its causes. All because the current regime confuse “metrics” with “outcomes”.
   • Draco T Bastard 4.1

     7 July 2015 at 4:37 pm

     +1
5. Tracey 5

   8 July 2015 at 7:31 am

   Crime is not the problem in NZ that our politicians (of many persuasions) tell us. It’s a beat up (pun intended). I also recall Ms Collins sending a cheery newsletter to her papakura folk crowing about dropping the crime rate in their areas but it turned out some stuff have been left off the reporting.

   ALL governments do this, both the beating up on crime for votes,, and the fudging of figures. Shame on all of them and shame on us for buying it.

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