Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how’s it going?
Another shooting! Was it always like this or are we just getting more coverage now?
In other news, I replaced my PC speakers with a UE Boom 3 I got off Trademe. Desk is much clearer without the speakers, there’s no cables, got rid of the sub under my desk, and was able to remove a whole 4 plug with better management. I highly recommend this option if you get minimalist urges like me. It’s so clean
And there’s a new ADV Podcasts episode out! They are showing footage of the flooding in Beijing. Hooooly crap.
That’s an amazing idea. Thanks, going to buy one today!
You mean a gun, a UE Boom 3 or a flood in Beijing?
There’s only one right answer to this question.
On the spot here… Can’t decide! Seriously the UE boom is inspired.
I’ve been using it all day and it’s been great. Well, it’s been exactly the same as my other speakers. No idea about battery life because it’s second hand, but when it eventually can’t hold charge it can just stay plugged in to the usb dock.
It feels like its been like this for the last year or two. There was a few months where my area was getting at least a shooting per week
Yes and no. Overall the murder rate is going down (barring 15 March 2019): https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NZL/new-zealand/crime-rate-statistics
There’s more recent years in this PDF: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/historic-new-zealand-murder-offences-1926-2021.pdf
So we get 10-11 murders per 1 million population. This is half what it was in the 90s.
However, there has been a recent violent crime increase. This is also not unexpected, as Labour has a policy of reducing the prison population. Putting less people in prison has longer term societal benefits but you can imagine it would lead to shorter term increases in violent crime, which does appear to be the case: https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/the-whole-truth/130965380/the-whole-truth-has-violent-crime-gone-up-under-labour
It does suggest rehabilitation isn’t working though (assuming any increase is actually mostly from people who were previously convicted).
That said, crime stats seem to be so fraught, it’s really hard to tell what’s going on with any degree of precision
Not necessarily. If you have a 50% recidivism rate but hold less people in prison, crime rates will go up even if the rate doesn’t change, simply because there are more people out of prison. Even if the recidivism rate goes down you may have more crime. But if over time the lower recidivism rate means less people go back to prison, over time you should see overall crime drop. This is probably a generatonal time period though. Short term higher crime rates for longer term gain.
There’s a lot to be said for having something in place to prevent the need for prison and rehab in the first place.
That link you posted shows a giant spike and it being the highest its been since the 90s
Yes, that giant spike is in 2019 with the March 15 terror attacks. It goes back to the normal line in 2020 as shown in the PDF.
On speaker recommendations, I’m a huge fan of my Edifier R1700BT speakers. They’re a fantastic budget option, and can go for under $200 on sale. They have more cabling than a UE boom, but you could connect them to your PC via Bluetooth, and they sound gorgeous.
Those do look nice…
Wouldn’t fit on my desk though unfortunately.