How’s this for evidence-based?

Law News reports:

Labour will introduce evidence-based policies to combat crime if it wins this year’s election, not the “bumper sticker” populism promoted by the current government, the party’s justice spokeswoman Camilla Belich says.

Let’s look at the evidence, shall we.

This is the number of violent crimes victims from the NZ Crime and Victims Survey. It has dropped 79,000 in the last 16 months.

How’s that for evidence.