Dairy owner knifed for smokes in Hastings!
What is going on here? This idiot actually knifed a dairy owner for a pack of cigarettes! Where does one get attitudes like that in a place like Aotearoa/NZ? Shame of it all, he is a young Maori (evidently). Its as though our people are still enslaved to these vices that came with colonisation. We have changed our desire to acquire from blankets and beads to smokes and alcohol. Where are our young learning these behaviours?
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Labels: crime, Hastings, knifing, youth
Bludging off the landlord
Three 21 year olds in Spencerville [Christchurch] have had trouble paying their rent. They have also had trouble keeping in line with their tenancy contract. So here is this landlord [a friend] who has three youths living in her house for free. My friend the landlord is not too happy with this and issues a 10 day breach of contract and rent arrears notice to her tenants who basically ignore her. So my friend decides to rent her place out to family and issues a 42 days notice of such so that they have plenty of time to get ready. The 42 days expire and no movement from the squatters. So she's now in mediation at the tenancy tribunal. This is seriously costing her [my friend] income. Still no rent. Then they pay $300 on a $1200 arrears. Still not up to date. So my friend's partner moves their stuff out of the house after having checked the property and changes the locks. No way will they get back in. What did they find? The carpets are seriously damaged [disgusting]. There is animal faeces around the inside of the house [even in the kitchen]. The contract specified "no pets" and they have two dogs and a cat. We discovered some missing mail in their kitchen draw [they live next door]. A missing bank password token. They have threatened two of my friend's family members with violence. There is dope smoking gear [a bong made from a bottle], and joint butts all around the lounge floor. The tenancy tribunal found in their favour. Justice????
Labels: bludgers, squatters, tenancy, tenancy tribunal, youth
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
