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Archived Press Releases 2008

POLICE COMMISSIONER - POLITICAL PUPPET?
Government response to child-abuse is another Committee
Statement from Rita Croskery
Drug treatment in jail is too late
Endangered snails versus endangered children
Kurariki early re-release a can of worms
Automatism: the new defence for drug-fuelled crime
South Auckland streets ruled by fear
PRISON NUMBERS MANIA EXPOSING PUBLIC TO unacceptable risk
WATCHDOG APPLAUDS TAGGING SENTENCE
Government accused of not taking illicit drug use seriously
Veitch must go to prison if convicted
Killer on witness protection to be paroled
SST SUPPORTS POLICE ASSOCIATION
SEVEN YEARS FOR BABY JHIA KILLING virtually legitimizes such crimes
COMPLACENCY MUST BE ABOLISHED
RAISING DRINKING AGE WOULD SAVE LIVES, STUDY FINDS
VIOLENCE AND BULLYING NATURAL OUTCOME OF PC CULTURE
SUPPORT FOR TRUCKIES
SENSIBLE SENTENCING FOUNDER IS HONOURED BUT SURPRISED BY PRESTIGIOUS AWARD
BAND AID SOLUTION TO VIOLENT CRIME
Appeal Court cultivates land fit for criminals
Bail like powder-keg waiting to blow
PROVOCATIVE WEBSITE LAUNCHED
Has New Zealand become a land fit for criminals?
WHY UPROAR ABOUT RIGHT-TO-SILENCE NOW?
COURT OF APPEAL – LEGISLATORS SLAMMED in PAEDOPHILE CASE
MAORI MASS EXODUS TO AUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTER WHERE ARE YOU?
RETHINKING…THINKING…Thought…GONE!
NEW YORK POLICING WILL LOWER PRISON MUSTER
WATCHDOG APPLAUDS CHRISTCHURCH BUT SLAMS LOCAL LAWYER FOR INSULTING VICTIMS AND SPINNING THE STATS
POLICE CONGRATULATED BY SENSIBLE SENTENCING TRUST
HOME DETENTION A SHAM SAYS WATCHDOG
CHRISTCHURCH SAYS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
CHRISTCHURCH to get SENSIBLE SENTENCING
Family Frustration
SENSIBLE SENTENCING TRUST ARE NOT WHITE SUPREMACISTS, REDNECKS OR THE "WHITE ENEMY AGAINST MAORI"
MAORI PARTY AVOIDS DEBATE ON MAORI IN PRISON
VICTIMS' CONFERENCE EMPOWERS VICTIMS
Tagging is not an Art Form says Judge
CRIMINAL FRIENDLY LEGAL SYSTEM CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM.
THE PUBLIC INCLUDING MAORI HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF CRIME AND WANT A VIGOROUS CRACK DOWN NOW.
Law and order revolution gains momentum
KIRO SUPPORTS TAGGERS
Murdered tourist's Aunt to speak at meeting to reclaim Taupo
AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL NEW ZEALANDERS
MONITOR KURARIKI – BE SAFE RATHER THAN SORRY SAYS MCNEIL
KARL KUCHENBECKER SHOULD STILL BE ALIVE
WHERE ARE THE LIBERAL DO-GOODERS NOW?
TRUST SUPPORTS PRISON GUARDS
BAIL LAWS GIVE LICENCE TO METH COOKS!
RACE TO BENEFIT VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIME