who's problem is it?
police nab three after violent attack in bop!
tauranga police last night arrested and charged three people for the brutal bashing of a businessman. the victim, 48 but not named, was attacked and beaten over the head with a blunt object on wednesday night. he is now fighting for his life in the critical care unit in auckland hospital after being flown there from tauranga early yesterday. full story.....
south auckland community searches for answers in troubled times.
south auckland has featured prominently in the media in recent months - for all the wrong reasons. the area has been plagued by violence and people are demanding answers. manukau courier reporter melanie louden talks to reverend maua sola about his thoughts and the role of the church during these tragic times. full story .....
teachers want help in classroom war zones
secondary school teachers fed up with classroom violence have spoken out about pupils threatening them with knives and telling them they would be raped.
others have called classrooms battlegrounds for gang recruits and angry pupils with behavioural problems "time bombs" who threaten other pupils and staff. full story .....
you'd have to be thinking that there is something not quite right in godzone. one of the things that is concerning me are the hotbeds created by the councils and govt depts, when they cordon off economically challenged ethnic groups in certain areas, south auckland, naenae, pomare and taita being examples of a few. i have noticed a small muslim society going up in the hutt valley. these are all becoming hotbeds of poverty and spite. unemployment and low wages are rife in these areas. is this good planning? is there a rod being created for our backs?
Labels: community, poverty, south auckland, teachers, violence
a community problem
community role in cutting crime
what this year's crime audit has really done is underline the social impact of youth crime and the damage caused by teen gangs. it shows how police, particularly those in south auckland, face a new wave of crime while they fight methamphetamine. in hamilton, a youth gang fight claimed the life of dylan jenkins last november. his crime was to wear the wrong colour bandana. the court stories told of the rival east and west side factions – groups with nothing worth fighting over, but prepared to fight to the death over it. south auckland has been dogged by tit-for-tat battles between gangs who in august were killing themselves at a rate of one a week.
waikato's top policeman, disappointed with the waikato result, also raised social issues this week. superintendent kelvin powell said the crime results did not belong to the police alone, they were the community's results. he called on the public to be more vigilant and report crime. he has also recently overseen the return of six staff to the hamilton east station. in south auckland police already have more people on the beat to tackle the gang crisis which has claimed six lives this year. regardless of how the latest figures are digested, the answers to reducing crime are not confined to a police budget. crime in new zealand is alive and well – but crime busting, welfare tactics and community action have still knocked it back almost 20 per cent in 10 years. whole article .....
i live in naenae in the the hutt valley, wellington region. recently, we have had a drive-by shooting and two stabbings. both involving the mongrel mob and the black power. both very public, with innocents standing around. as naenae tries it's damndest to keep up with south auckland regarding youth crime, i can only point out that it is indeed, a community problem. until the community puts a stop to youth crime, we will have to put up with it and the effect it has on us.
Labels: community, crime, gangs, mob, youth
