I forgot about this:

# ben (194) Says:
May 8th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Steve Levitt (Freakonomics) has researched why crime in NYC fell in the 1990s, and IIRC he concluded it had little or nothing to do with the Broken Windows policy and everything to do with Rowe vs. Wade in 1973 – about 18 years before crime in NYC and across America began its steep decline.

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So Sue’s ferals have a bit to do with it perhaps…..?

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The Greens are opposed to Big Brother and this policy involves more surviellence.
The Greens are on an outlier position when it comes to civil liberties and along with civil libertarians will be breathing down the neck of any actions by the state. What’s more there is a tendency to “blame the system” for errant behaviour, especially for people who “don’t see the good side of life”… Sue Bradford.
The Green Charter Principles are given broad scope of interpretation.
ps I’m a pragmatist, believing in the carrot and the stick and an evolutionary basis of behaviour.

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kahikatea Says:
May 8th, 2008 at 9:47 am

How is the ‘broken windows’ policing approach contrary to the principle of non-violence?
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Ask Keith.

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Meanwhile the UK has re classified Cannabis as a class B drug….good for them.

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# jh Says:
May 8th, 2008 at 9:17 am

> This is just the Stuff the Greens are opposed to thanks to the Charter Principle of Non Violence. Keith must speak out!

How is the ‘broken windows’ policing approach contrary to the principle of non-violence?

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Quick…Make Dave Cliff commissioner NOW

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Police promise to be tougher on violent crime
by IAN STEWARD – The Press | Thursday, 08 May 2008

Christchurch police signalled a radical New York-style “zero tolerance” policy at a public meeting to address increasing violent crime in the city last night.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4515072a6009.html

This is just the Stuff the Greens are opposed to thanks to the Charter Principle of Non Violence. Keith must speak out!

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Maybe.

jh, other chemicals too! jeez

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and then in the following story you link to ‘no minister’..

perhaps you’d have to go to the national front to find a more racist/sexist/everything-ist/pile of vomit site in new zealand..

but hey..!..eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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i’d read your stories if you ripped out your ‘full stop’ key phil

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that’s quite ‘touching’ frog..

(or are you just b*tt-kissing campbell..?..)

have you turned over a new lily-pad..?

(btw..26 stories today on whoar..three years ‘on-air’..

16,198 stories..and counting..

but hey..!..eh..?..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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***www.NewScientist.com – NEWSFLASH***

Decades after most countries stopped using the insecticide DDT, frozen stores of the chemical are now dripping out of melting Antarctic glaciers – and into penguins.

Read the full story here:

http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eBVeX0MXBVN0mli0E1OB0EW

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