NZ among worst countries for crime

The missing statistics are the number of crimes solved by the Police. Their overall average is 38%. That is very bad. The messages sent to crims is that they have a good chance of getting away with it.

Just imagine that if we as the public became extreemly intolerant of crime, and forced some action so that Police solved 80% of all crime. What would happen is that the number of crimes committed in all catagories would dramatically drop. NZ would become a safe country to live in.

So we must focus on the failure of Police to protect us. The best way is to put pressure on politicians of all parties. And especially in an election year.

how does lima, peru rank with world crime?

Statistics like these are somewhat flawed, any introductory criminology course will show you this. Statistics are primarily recorded by police, who record criminal acts at their own discretion or do not record crimes at all (or perhaps in New Zealand's case, the opposite may be true). These high numbers could simply reflect pro-active policing, especially recently with a focus on violence against women and children... if the police focus on violent crimes then more of these crimes will show up in statistics, showing a perceived "increase" in crimes of a violent nature.

For a small country, we have some seriously large issues that need to be dealt with, not merely discussed. Our young appear to be more bored with life and apallingly violent. I think boy/girl racers should be stopped with simple "unlawful assembly" legislation. Stop pussy-footing around with fines they never pay, arrest them and crush their cars in a mobile car-crusher... on the spot, instant consequence for them all to witness. More police should be on the beat to pick up taggers, more money should be provided to the RSPCA to prosecute those who are cruel to animals... ASPCA in the USA have police powers as they recognise that this kind of thing escalates to more violent crime. And for the drug takers out there, stop wasting resources on them, if they want to slowly kill themselves, let them, the resources would be better deployed in the really serious stuff that's ruining our lovely country.

Why don't the people above read the The International Crime Victims Survey link in the story. All your questions would be answered.

Try living in South London for a perspective on violent crime ... not fun!

Numero Uno for police satisfaction? Surely that means a higher level of reporting is going on if we have such faith in our police force. If you didn't trust the police, would you report the crime? Perhaps this accounts for some of the higher crime stats for NZ.

What a surprise! (said sarcastically) This report actually puts paid to our notion of NZ as a 'safe country', as often expressed by our international students, doesn't it? I have been a victim of crime (house and car burglary) and last year, my young tourist friend was assaulted in Taupo. The so-called satisfaction with the police must be questioned, as the actual report does not say that exactly. Also, very few people (about 2000 random globally) responded to the report. Personally, my philosophy has been that crime-wise, 9/10 people are good and maybe 1/10 are bad but when I read in the Manawatu Standard about all the arrests made every weekend (once there were 48 in Palmerston North), I wonder why some of our citizens who live in such a nice city as ours, can be so dismal in their behaviour. Have we become just too damn liberal about letting the level of such violence escalate and hurt our society? It seems that our justice system is far too lenient with crims, at the expense of their current and future victims. So do we shrug and say, oh well that is the way of the world now? Actually it is time to say enough is enough and demand that our society improve. Does your local member of parliament have any suggestion in this matter to take up at parliament level?

I had my car stolen once and caught the culprit 3 months later driving in my car. I managed to get the police to accompany me and he was subsequently arrested after threatening me. When the officer rang me to come and collect my car back from the police. I was told that the motor in the car was not mine and that the thieves were willing to sell it to me for $400. My other option was to have the motor removed. I was told by the police that they could not commit a crime to solve a crime. I got my car back by paying the thieves $400. It seemed to me that the police helped the thieves. 'Police and thieves in the street... Oh yeah' The Clash.

You've seen the movie Battle Royale too many times... Where disobedient kids are put on a bus and sent for armed combat against each other, in some dystopian future. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/