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On 10 May 2021, shortly after 14:30 NZST, four people were stabbed at the Countdown supermarket in central Dunedin, New Zealand. The victims were two shoppers and two staff members, reportedly in the area close to the supermarket pharmacy. [1] The attacker stabbed four people in a rampage, seriously injuring three of them.
The New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey (NZCASS) estimated that in 2014, the four major classes of crime incidents [a] were assault (27.3%), threat of force (21.4%), burglary (10.8%) and sexual offences (9.9%). Most of these incidents (52.9%) were experienced by a victim that experienced five or more incidents of crime.
On 28 November, Ardern and Hipkins announced that the Government would be launching a new retail crime package to combat retail crime including a fog cannon subsidy scheme; a NZ$4 million fund to support local councils' crime prevention programmes in Auckland, Hamilton and the Bay of Plenty; and expanding the existing NZ$6 million Retail Crime ...
The incident was treated as terrorism [2] and was "ISIS-inspired" according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. [6] It was the second stabbing in less than four months to occur at a Countdown supermarket, the first being in Dunedin, and the first terrorist attack in New Zealand since the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019.
The crime occurred inside a prison van bound for Mt Eden Remand Centre. The government and judicial authorities faced criticism for the case, particularly regarding the methods of transporting prisoners in New Zealand, as Ashley had committed minor non-violent offenses while Baker had a history of recidivism and violent crime. [2]
Matu Tangi Matua Reid entered the One Queen Street building in the Auckland CBD with a pump-action shotgun on 20 July 2023. [7] The 21-storey building near the Commercial Bay Shopping Centre originally opened in 1973 and was undergoing renovations as part of the Commercial Bay redevelopment project, with the building planned to house offices and a hotel. [7]
[6] [needs update] The New Zealand Police recorded crime for reported sexual offences in 2008 accounted for 1% of all offences. [ 6 ] [ needs update ] In the NZCASS, 45% of people who had experienced sexual offences considered the incident a crime, 31% considered the incident ‘wrong, but not a crime’, and 23% considered the incident as ...
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