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Speaker 1: From our you wonder why we are where we are?

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Speaker 1: File note from the Solicitor General to the Police Prosecution

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Speaker 1: Service about the new system they will have in place

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Speaker 1: as of the start next year. Now we have the

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Speaker 1: SG starts updated the prosecution guidelines. The goals remain to

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Speaker 1: ensure I'm quoting him here, New Zealand continues to benefit

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Speaker 1: from prosecution processes which are underscored by the core values

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Speaker 1: of transparency, equality and fair application of the law to

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Speaker 1: all participants, and reflect the legitimate public interest in prosecuting

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Speaker 1: criminal offending. Well, so far, so good, right, But then

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Speaker 1: but then they get to this bit. The guidelines ask

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Speaker 1: prosecutors to quote unquote think carefully about particular decisions were

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Speaker 1: a person as MARI or a member of any other

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Speaker 1: group disproportionately impact by the criminal justice system. This does

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Speaker 1: not promote different treatment based on ethnicity or membership of

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Speaker 1: a particular group. It instead alerts prosecutors to situations and

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Speaker 1: factors that may deliver inequitable out comes for some people

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Speaker 1: in those groups. Quick question, what do you reckon that means?

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Speaker 1: And does it mean what you think it means? Without

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Speaker 1: the meaning being so explicit you go, what the hell

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Speaker 1: I thought we were getting rid of all of this nonsense.

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Speaker 1: And all this nonsense is the problem the government has

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Speaker 1: with race based ideology. They say a lot of one thing,

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Speaker 1: but are facing a tremendous amount of pushback on it,

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Speaker 1: as the university's collapse in global rankings as published last

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Speaker 1: week at least surely in part because of their obsession

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Speaker 1: with race. We now find the justice system instructed to

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Speaker 1: quote think carefully. What is this disproportion they speak of? Well,

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Speaker 1: obviously when it comes to race, Mari are over represented

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Speaker 1: in crime. Ask a simple question why and the answer

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Speaker 1: surely is because sadly they commit too much of it.

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Speaker 1: Another simple question is, by thinking carefully, as instructed by

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Speaker 1: the Solicitor General, perhaps going to lead to I don't know,

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Speaker 1: lesser charges, whether in severity or numbers, And therefore the

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Speaker 1: disproportion has balanced out a bit. No reduction in crime,

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Speaker 1: just the consequences. And a final simple question. If the

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Speaker 1: government says we should not be having policy based on race,

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Speaker 1: how do they explain this? For more from the My

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