I live in Opotiki. Excellent work done by the Police. Everyone wins. Maori included. The problem of meth is not just going to disappear overnight though. There are too many young people already destroyed by these drugs. Last night my wife and I were going for a walk and a lady was running along the beach trail looking for someone who had stolen her purse from out of her car at the shop. She had wet her pants she was exhausted and must have fallen over and was asking us if we had seen the cops from where we came from. I said no but I realized I saw the guy a few minutes earlier. It turned out as i got further along I found two very young boys in a ute (her ute) and they told me it was their own father who took the purse. 1+1 = methamphetamine etc. What a sad story. The cops had gone past and picked up the lady and were looking for the bloke. I had picked up a hitch hiker earlier this week who was in his twenties (I thought it was someone else I knew) and he was talking to himself (meth) and he was a wasted space. Early afternoon. His clothes reeked of days of unwashed-ness. There are many older guys in this town who are just derelicts from drugs & alcohol. Their ability to function lessens day by day. Gangs are responsible for pushing this stuff on their own people from school age young kid dealers onwards who bully their school peers. After these raids occurred a young prospect for the Barbarians (a Mongel Mob chapter) 'king hit' from behind a young school age maori guy who has recently left school while he was carrying a one year old child and was walking with her mother. The grandparents went around to the offender's house and his parents said they cannot control their kid. They should have gone to the police but are in fear of reprisal. That is how much the gangs terrorize their own people. Every maori I know was happy about these raids (and they know people who have families with gang members in them). I even speak to the guys who are struggling with drugs and alcohol (who we try to help as much as is possible) and they hate the gangs also (and some of them used to be in them) and they know them all here.
@@caravanstuff2827 Hahaha! I love living here. We live out of town by the sea. I never want to move. We used to live in Orkland. LOL. There's a lot of good things living way down here. It's a quiet little paradise. It's not as bad as the media make out at all. But thanks. Small town NZ people are great. But there are downsides everywhere.
Maybe those affected by the raids Should take a stand against the Govt......Give up your Benefits,State House & anything else the NZ tax payer provides?
I cringe when I hear the ‘outstanding’ TVNZ reporters/journalists referring to police as ‘cops’ and search warrants as ‘raids’. The police aren’t warring Māori raiding a nearby village or Vikings raiding the English. Police appoint an officer to the welfare of those present at search warrants, so what a crock of… Strip searches, completely legal under the right circumstances. Redirected anger by the local crooks and their sympathisers.
@ hiding your head in the sand is what labour has done for two terms, we now reap what they sowed, a nannyate, where unlawful gangs that peddle meth and crime somehow have rights due to their skin colour🤦♂️ .............
It won't be long before labour apologies for these raids , like they did for the over stayers dawn raids back in the 70s and 80s...both are a necessary tool for the police in their efforts to enforce the law!!!.❤️🇳🇿
Pretty simple really, dont break the bloody law and you wont have the police knocking on your day, no good bringing out the woe is me shite its to late cuzzies.!
While it is regrettable that tamariki were caught up in the police raids on Opotiki, no one is asking what their parents and grandparents were up to. By getting involved in organised crime, these adults are putting their whanau at risk.
Thank you for explaining what each "Maori" word means... I was brought up only learning and don't know or understand "Maori", I only understand English. Thank you.
We speaking English now in NEW ZEALAND. You won't have to learn Maori unless you choose to...as it always should be. Not forced and shoved down our throats.
Had better hold off till they build that super max prison national we're going too back in 2018..if the government want to take down the gangs they'll have to have more capacity to put the gangs hierarchy and that could be in the thousands!!!.❤️🇳🇿
There is a few levels to this. The gov the platfor and the platform lol The latter two are Seans lot and youtube. I would assume the main one is UA-cam.
Mitchell wanted to take on the gangs and has failed big time. He didn't liaise with Iwi but He has allowed Vietnamese gangs to go home without conviction.
Minister keep up the good work.
RACE CAN'T BE USED AS AN EXCUSE TO BREAK THE LAW , ONE LAW FOR ALL
As I understand it the raids saved lives of a couple of people surely that is the most important issue.
We don't give criminals a voice.
We don't listen to criminals.
We don't comply or obey anything these criminals have to say.
@@NA-sj9jy what planet is this msg coming from?
What about the Green Party and Teh Patty Maori?
I live in Opotiki. Excellent work done by the Police. Everyone wins. Maori included. The problem of meth is not just going to disappear overnight though. There are too many young people already destroyed by these drugs. Last night my wife and I were going for a walk and a lady was running along the beach trail looking for someone who had stolen her purse from out of her car at the shop. She had wet her pants she was exhausted and must have fallen over and was asking us if we had seen the cops from where we came from. I said no but I realized I saw the guy a few minutes earlier. It turned out as i got further along I found two very young boys in a ute (her ute) and they told me it was their own father who took the purse. 1+1 = methamphetamine etc. What a sad story. The cops had gone past and picked up the lady and were looking for the bloke. I had picked up a hitch hiker earlier this week who was in his twenties (I thought it was someone else I knew) and he was talking to himself (meth) and he was a wasted space. Early afternoon. His clothes reeked of days of unwashed-ness. There are many older guys in this town who are just derelicts from drugs & alcohol. Their ability to function lessens day by day. Gangs are responsible for pushing this stuff on their own people from school age young kid dealers onwards who bully their school peers. After these raids occurred a young prospect for the Barbarians (a Mongel Mob chapter) 'king hit' from behind a young school age maori guy who has recently left school while he was carrying a one year old child and was walking with her mother. The grandparents went around to the offender's house and his parents said they cannot control their kid. They should have gone to the police but are in fear of reprisal. That is how much the gangs terrorize their own people. Every maori I know was happy about these raids (and they know people who have families with gang members in them). I even speak to the guys who are struggling with drugs and alcohol (who we try to help as much as is possible) and they hate the gangs also (and some of them used to be in them) and they know them all here.
Wooow I'll give you an A for effort..and my deepest sympathy for living in opotiki!!.😭😭
@@caravanstuff2827 Hahaha! I love living here. We live out of town by the sea. I never want to move. We used to live in Orkland. LOL. There's a lot of good things living way down here. It's a quiet little paradise. It's not as bad as the media make out at all. But thanks. Small town NZ people are great. But there are downsides everywhere.
Mike Laws is correct, Opotiki and other meth towns are now like Mexico. The gangs control the town, the council and to some extent the police.
Maybe those affected by the raids Should take a stand against the Govt......Give up your Benefits,State House & anything else the NZ tax payer provides?
Yeah, warn them so they can hide the guns, drugs and stolen property..
Police doing their job, go for it Mark.
I cringe when I hear the ‘outstanding’ TVNZ reporters/journalists referring to police as ‘cops’ and search warrants as ‘raids’.
The police aren’t warring Māori raiding a nearby village or Vikings raiding the English.
Police appoint an officer to the welfare of those present at search warrants, so what a crock of…
Strip searches, completely legal under the right circumstances. Redirected anger by the local crooks and their sympathisers.
Agree about police being called cops on tvnz.....makes it sound like the US.....
So what if they were left alone ,wouldn't have been the first time in there lives .
I highly doubt they left a 3 year old alone, they would have just taken him to the station for his own safety.
Visit el Salvador. Get some good ideas we could implement here.
Excellent idea 😊
What's wrong with police doing police work. If you don't break the law, the police won't be at your door.
Brilliant 😎🎱😛😛😛
this situ is hillarious, and at the bottom of the bucket, the iwi are prob involved in the business at hand with the gangs
I think that statement re the I WANT IT (IWI) is drawing a long bow. How ever where there is smoke there may be fire.
@ hiding your head in the sand is what labour has done for two terms, we now reap what they sowed, a nannyate, where unlawful gangs that peddle meth and crime somehow have rights due to their skin colour🤦♂️ .............
I guarantee they get kickbacks from the meth trade.
ok.....we know , we know
The very word "raid" means surprise.
@@anthonymorgan6255 its flyspray
It won't be long before labour apologies for these raids , like they did for the over stayers dawn raids back in the 70s and 80s...both are a necessary tool for the police in their efforts to enforce the law!!!.❤️🇳🇿
@@fisher-y6cI like your thinking woody!!.🤣🤣
..the precious tamariki are generally 'left to their own devices', so what's the concern..?
Funny how change of gov changes the arrest rates
Pretty simple really, dont break the bloody law and you wont have the police knocking on your day, no good bringing out the woe is me shite its to late cuzzies.!
It wouldn't be the first or last time the law got things wrong...
Urewera raids anyone?
Yeah...didn't fucking think so...
While it is regrettable that tamariki were caught up in the police raids on Opotiki, no one is asking what their parents and grandparents were up to. By getting involved in organised crime, these adults are putting their whanau at risk.
Thank you for explaining what each "Maori" word means...
I was brought up only learning and don't know or understand "Maori", I only understand English.
Thank you.
We speaking English now in NEW ZEALAND. You won't have to learn Maori unless you choose to...as it always should be. Not forced and shoved down our throats.
If he just spoke in English then he wouldn't have to explain every minute and everyone listening would understand!!!.❤️🇳🇿
We dont speak maori in new Zealand not a main language of the country.
Had better hold off till they build that super max prison national we're going too back in 2018..if the government want to take down the gangs they'll have to have more capacity to put the gangs hierarchy and that could be in the thousands!!!.❤️🇳🇿
Forewarning 😅😅😅 Bust goes the rade!
The Platform uses Leftie mācrons 😂
Censoring the you-tube chat hard today, Sean wonder why ???
It's an on going issue with the Platform & the reason I walked away as I could see they are government puppets.
Because what you say M8, doesn't fit the narrative!
There is a few levels to this.
The gov the platfor and the platform lol
The latter two are Seans lot and youtube.
I would assume the main one is UA-cam.
That's youtube lol
I thought they would be too busy arresting independent journalist’s
Gestapo is silenced. Unwelcome in New Zealand.
Come on, Sean. Its children.
They weren't left alone just more lies by gang members full of shit .
It's dubious stories designed to create a narrative.
@@MikeJones-m6r Sorry, I should have made myself clear. It's children... not tamaricky. We are in New Zealand... not some savage prehistoric land.
Mitchell wanted to take on the gangs and has failed big time. He didn't liaise with Iwi but He has allowed Vietnamese gangs to go home without conviction.
Why should he liaise with iwi? Cops don’t need iwi to give the seal of approval for a search warrant
@Ronny.81
His word's genius, not mine.
@@AmeliaRose-h1e what were his words? You’ve lost me
@@Ronny.81
I'm not surprised you're lost, it's obviously a white thing.
@@Ronny.81dont even bother with this Amelia,she has cronic mental health issues