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The crime rate has continued to decline in the twenty-first century. In 2010, the number of murders fell by about 25% from the previous year. Reported crimes have generally become 6.7 percent less frequent. [22] In 2011, New Zealand's recorded crime rate was at its lowest in 15 years, down another 5.6% on the figures from 2010. [32]
In early 2005, crime statistics for both recorded crime and recorded apprehensions for the last 10 years were published by Statistics New Zealand. These statistics provide offence statistics related to individual sections of legislation and appear to be the most detailed national crime statistics available today.
In the 2009 New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey (NZCASS), publishing survey data on crime that took place in 2008, sexual offences accounted for 5% of all offences reported in the survey. [6] [needs update] The New Zealand Police recorded crime for reported sexual offences in 2008 accounted for 1% of all offences.
New legislation by the NZ government alongside advocacy groups such as the White Ribbon Campaign seek to reduce the occurrence of Domestic violence in New Zealand. [36] [37] The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse provides an online catalogue and depository for resources, statistics, and publications on family violence in New Zealand. [38]
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]
The New Zealand government said on Friday it would reform the country's "outdated and complicated" firearm laws which have been in place for more than 40 years. New Zealand's previous government ...
Riots and civil disorder in New Zealand (4 P) S. School shootings in New Zealand (1 P) Stabbing attacks in New Zealand (2 C, 1 P) ... Statistics; Cookie statement;
Tourists received no health and safety warnings before they landed on New Zealand’s most active volcano ahead of a 2019 eruption that killed 22 people, a prosecutor said Tuesday. There were 47 ...