Sensational reporting

Keith Ng in his On Point blog on Public Address has done a fantastic take on the DomPost's ridiculous sensationalistic article on crime in New Zealand. Keith's article is definitely worth a read.

Shocking figures in the DomPost yesterday showed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there are places in New Zealand with more cases of MURDER per capita than any other place in New Zealand.

What's more, the statistics irrefutably show that this is not only true of MURDER, but also of robbery, assault, rape and cannabisism. Remarkably, in a country that we once thought of as safe, there now exists CRIME CAPITALS where instances of such crimes per capita is higher than anywhere else in New Zealand.