Huge drop in victims of violent crime

The latest NZ Crime and Victims Survey has found a massive drop in the number of New Zealanders who say they were the victim of a violent (including sexual) crime in the last year.

Now recall these are over a 12 month period so only the last two data points reflect an entire year under National. Basically from 2022 to 2024 the number of NZers who were violently or sexually assaulted increased from 160,000 to 215,000 or 45,000 more victims. It has now dropped to 157,000 and hopefully will continue to decline.

So in the 12 months from July 2023 to June 2024 62,000 Māori were the victims or violent or sexual assaults. In the last 12 months it was only 23,000 – a reduction of 37%.

I am awaiting the press release from Te Pati Maori welcoming this.