Crime

This morning I blogged about a dud Judge…but it turns out she isn’t a dud Judge after all, and it is the Herald that is a dud paper. It seems not all Judges named Philippa are crap.

I just received this email…it is self explanatory…now you can all heap piles of dung on the “decent journalists, trained and skilled” from the NZ Herald.

Dear Cameron,

re:  NZ Herald article this morning

I thought you should know that article relating to KEPA in today’s Herald is incorrect:

“Judge Philippa Sinclair sentenced him to seven months in prison, to be served concurrently. That means Kepu will not have time added on to his sentence and is still eligible for parole in 2015 on his manslaughter conviction.”  Read more »

UPDATE: Judge not dud after all

Another dud judge has caused some outrage. I’m not normally someone who would side with a union, much less the Corrections Association and Bevan Hanlon, however Judge Philippa Sinclair has really shown just how pathetic some of our judges are:

A dangerous high-security prisoner who killed a Corrections officer has been sentenced for assaulting two more but will spend no extra time in prison, a penalty the prison guards’ union calls disgraceful.

Latu Kepu was already serving a jail sentence for the manslaughter of prison guard Jason Palmer when he attacked two other guards in separate incidents last October.  Read more »

In the wake of massacres in the US media people who know no better, like Piers Morgan, called for tougher gun laws, like those in the UK. How do they work in reality? Not so well it turns out.

The images of paramilitary-style policemen with assault rifles in Luton are a shocking confirmation that law and order has collapsed in parts of our country.

In an age of terrorism, we have become used to seeing armed police at major railway stations and airports, or guarding other potential targets such as embassies. But when officers with guns are needed to patrol the streets of an English town because of an upsurge in gang shootings, it seems we have reached something of a watershed in our national life.  Read more »

Unfortunately cracking down on gangs doesn’t have the mainstream media appeal of gay marriage, new holidays (in 2015), Aaron Gilmore’s drunken rampages through Hanmer Springs and bigger hand-outs.

But last night, Mark Mitchell gave a bloody good speech on Todd McClay’s bill to ban gang patches from certain public places.

Worth a watch:

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The video above is how South African Police deal with people who flee them. Now read how our liberals want to deal with fleeing criminals.

Brian Rudman is usually banging on about the state or city funding a new theatre for him and other liberal elite arts wankers to enjoy subsidised arts shows.

Today though he is backing the crims over police by insisting that criminals who are drunk, in charge of heavy metal objects and breaking the law be allowed to get away with it.

How many more young New Zealanders have to die before the police – and Parliament – concede that patrol cars are a much more deadly weapon than the Glock pistol and the Bushmaster carbine?

In the past 10 years, police shot and killed seven people – one an innocent bystander – in the course of duty. But in 2010 alone, 18 fleeing drivers – or their passengers – died as a direct consequence of high-speed police pursuits. Last weekend, four South Auckland boys died in a horrendous ending to a police chase.  Read more »

I see the media is again blaming the Police after 3 morons were killed last night fleeing Police. You should check out the Twitter traffic from journalists slamming the Police for doing their job.

A third person has died following a crash in which a fleeing car hit a parked truck in Mangere overnight.

Two people died at the scene on Massey Rd and two others in the car were taken to Middlemore Hospital in a serious condition after the collision.

A hospital spokeswoman confirmed one of the patients died this morning and the other remained in a critical condition.  Read more »

Labour and the Greens have confirmed that they will be looking at running hug-a-crim policies at the next election:

Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party all say they would repeal or alter the three-strikes legislation after the issuing of a second strike to Hastings man Elijah Whaanga.

Whaanga, 21, was sentenced to two years’ jail and issued with his second strike by Judge Tony Adeane in the Napier District Court on April 18 after pleading guilty to two charges of aggravated robbery.

The offences involved Whaanga and an accomplice attacking victims on two occasions last August.

In one, Whaanga took a skateboard, hat and cigarette lighter from the victim after trying unsuccessfully to remove the victim’s jacket.

The second involved Whaanga kicking the victim in his leg and taking his hat and cellphone.  Read more »

The Labour party and their proxy in the Prison Guards union oppose private prisons, they say the state can run them better.

Imagine the outcry if drugs, weapons, porn and home brew were found in a Serco run prison…the wailing and howling would be weapons grade.

However that is exactly what has happened in a state run and union controlled prison. The union needs to come forward with some answers, Otherwise Anne Tolley should outsource this prison forthwith.

Illicit drugs, pornography, home brew, gang paraphernalia and weapons are among the 854 items of contraband discovered at the Otago Corrections Facility in the past three years.

The Milburn jail had 19,123 visits by members of the public between its opening in June 2007 and the end of last year.

Of the 6987 people who applied to be registered prison visitors, 642 were declined for various reasons, including attempting to bring in contraband and being subject to court orders or charges.  Read more »

Chopper Read is in the New York Times being all soft and un-Chopper like.

MARK BRANDON READ sat quietly drinking lemonade in a small garden behind his favorite pub, the back of his chair positioned against an aging red brick wall that afforded him a clear line of sight to all possible escape routes. He looked affable enough, and the silver-plated dentures that long ago replaced his upper front teeth only added to the disarming smile that he occasionally flashed to great effect.  Read more »

The Beast of Blenheim, Stewart Murray Wilson is back behind bars where he belongs after attempting to abscond to Australia.

The Parole Board has found he still poses an undue risk to the community after evidence emerged that he made phone calls mentioning plans to flee New Zealand.

Stewart Murray Wilson was recalled to prison on an interim basis on February 21, pending yesterday’s parole hearing. He has now been recalled indefinitely.

The Parole Board deemed Wilson posed “an undue risk to the safety of the community or any person”.  Read more »