“Rikihana thought his life had been going downhill ever since he’d first gone to prison. On his first lag, he saw someone stabbed up in his cell. That was when he realised prison was serious.” — An extract from ‘The Valley’, by Asher Emanuel.
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“Justin Taia may be a menace to society, but we shouldn’t forget he’s a product of it too. He was fed to the system as a child, and then returned to it as an adult who’d been smashed apart — a violent offender who is also a brutalised victim.” — Connie Buchanan & Teuila Fuatai.
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“Not all crimes receive equal coverage. Nor are they framed in the same way, however violent they may be.” — Criminologist Sara Salman on the Auckland shooting last month.
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“We get these political conversations on the continuum of ‘hard on crime’ or ‘soft on crime’. But it tells you nothing about whether the response is appropriate for what we’re dealing with.” — Police Commissioner Andrew Coster.
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“Try really hard to get the politics taken out of the issues . . . and address, for instance, the way the media reports crime, because there’s still the attitude that if it bleeds, it leads.” — Chester Borrows on the need for a better approach to criminal justice.
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The recent election had its usual predictable talk about law and order — and that talk ranged from...
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