New Zealand’s Escalating Crime Wave ‘Decades in the Making’: Police Minister

New Zealand’s Escalating Crime Wave ‘Decades in the Making’: Police Minister
Police cars parked behind Parliament and Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, on March 2, 2022. Lynn Grieveson/Getty Images
Rebecca Zhu
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Decades of family abuse has contributed to the rampant crime rate in New Zealand, with one politician comparing the lawlessness to that in South Africa.

“We’ve had the most crime, especially the most gun crime, that I can ever remember,” former federal Member of Parliament Matt King told The Epoch Times.