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Speaker 1: Kiwis are generally known around the world as good sorts,

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Speaker 1: good people. We open doors, we say please and thank you,

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Speaker 1: We help a neighbor out. We leap into help people

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Speaker 1: when helpers need it. It's one of those traits that

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Speaker 1: we're most proud of as a country, I think. But

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Speaker 1: one thing we hate more than anything else is when

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Speaker 1: that kindness is taken for granted. Then there is no

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Speaker 1: more mister nice guy. And we saw this with the

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Speaker 1: kids stealing from dairies and ram raiding the poor, old,

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Speaker 1: hard working dairy owners. The minute they started destroying livelihoods

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Speaker 1: beating people with screwdrivers and hammers, sympathy evaporated. Sure, some

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Speaker 1: of these kids may have had hard upbringings, but there

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Speaker 1: are plenty of kids out there with tough upbringings who

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Speaker 1: choose not to drive anus antita through a four square

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Speaker 1: window at three am aren't there. So we voted for

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Speaker 1: boot camps. We reversed our no chase police chase policy.

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Speaker 1: We crack down. Kindness has its limits. A long time

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Speaker 1: ago for those who frequent the city, we crossed the

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Speaker 1: same line with beggars and rough sleepers. We care about them,

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Speaker 1: of course we do. We're not a holes. We donate

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Speaker 1: our time and our money to the city mission, to charities,

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Speaker 1: we pay our taxes knowing that they should be going

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Speaker 1: to help in some way improve their lives. But there

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Speaker 1: are also a bunch of idiots taking advantage with squirted

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Speaker 1: bottles at traffic lights. They can be quite aggressive and dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Not to mention same goes for rough sleepers on the

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Speaker 1: footpaths and some of our biggest cities. It's costing businesses,

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Speaker 1: it's destroying the reputation of entire swathes of city shops.

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Speaker 1: These shops provide jobs for the rest of us, especially

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Speaker 1: in our biggest city where foreign terrists first impression should

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Speaker 1: be not a punch up between two ruffies on the footpath.

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Speaker 1: So while the headlines about this move on policy, like

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Speaker 1: the crackdown on ram raiders before it, or the hard

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Speaker 1: line on ko tenants who were throwing knives across the

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Speaker 1: fence or bottles across the fence to their neighbors before it,

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Speaker 1: they will scream cruel and mean in the papers. But

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Speaker 1: I think they are out of step with the reality

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Speaker 1: of people and the reality that these people are facing

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Speaker 1: in their own lives. The good Grace cup hath runneth

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