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Archived Press Releases 2010 5th July 2010

VIOLENCE SOARS AS CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST

(5th July 2010)

The Sensible Sentencing Trust believes the 77 percent increase in convictions for violent assaults over the last ten years is confirmation that New Zealand ’s liberal social policies have been an unmitigated disaster.

The increase in convictions for violent assaults is included in the latest Conviction and Sentencing statistics released by the Ministry of Justice today.

The figures also showed the total number of prosecutions per 10,000 residents increased 26 percent over the decade.

Sensible Sentencing Trust Spokesman, Garth McVicar said while the increased number of prosecutions was commendable the actual increase in crime, particularly violent crime, was alarming.

“The last thirty years has seen the introduction of unprecedented and unproven liberal social policies that have destroyed the values, morals, boundaries and consequences that historically made this country one of the safest in the Western World.”

“Ultimately we reap what we sow; social policies have underwritten and encouraged an ever increasing number of drop-outs who develop a lifestyle of drugs, booze, crime and violence.”

McVicar said that while the fault lay with legislators and bureacrats who have sanctioned the disastrous social experiment the consequences and ultimate cost was a burden the public had to carry.

“These latest figures are conclusive evidence that the liberal experiment has come at an astronomical price and one that future generations will be saddled with for many years yet”

“The chickens are now coming home to roost!”

Regards,

Garth McVicar
National Spokesperson,
Sensible Sentencing Trust.