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ACCFocus Members Blogs
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Support for National's boot camp
"National's leader, John Key, has wowed both sides of the law and order debate - as long as you don't call his Fresh Start programme a boot camp.
Garth McVicar of the hardline Sensible Sentencing Trust and Kim Workman, director of the liberal Prison Fellowship, yesterday welcomed the Fresh Start scheme - a proposed new Youth Court sentence of up to a year, including up to three months of "residential training at, for example, Army facilities".
Mr McVicar said opponents were bound to label the scheme a boot camp. "Call it what you will - discipline, accountability, responsibility works," he said. "We've just become politically correct and operating a social experiment. It's been a dismal disaster. I think what John Key is putting out there is the first time I have seen a political party offer some constructive policy which I believe will turn this around."
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Time to Crack Down on Teen Violence
The government, police and judiciary must crack down on violent youth offending, which is clearly increasing to epidemic proportions, says New Zealand First law and order spokesman Ron Mark.
His comments follow two separate attacks on Auckland’s North Shore, allegedly committed by three teenagers armed with baseball bats. Four people are in hospital with serious head injuries.
