{"id":47327,"date":"2022-08-11T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/some-new-zealand-politicians-want-to-crack-down-on-gangs-thats-no-way-to-solve-the-problem"},"modified":"2022-08-11T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T19:00:21","slug":"some-new-zealand-politicians-want-to-crack-down-on-gangs-thats-no-way-to-solve-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47327","title":{"rendered":"Some New Zealand politicians want to crack down on gangs. That\u2019s no way to solve the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gangs flourish when the state fails its citizens. Banning colours and getting \u2018tough on crime\u2019 won\u2019t fix anything<\/p>\n<p>The US has its mafia. Australia has its bikies. New Zealand, a country often understood as more innocent than its larger, more dangerous English-speaking partners, has its street gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Mongrel Mob, New Zealand\u2019s largest gang, are a familiar part of most provincial towns and cities in the North Island. Tourists who arrive in Rotorua might find it strange to spot Mob men, wrapped in black leather with bulldogs inked across their faces. But locals would hardly register a gang member.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/some-new-zealand-politicians-want-to-crack-down-on-gangs-thats-no-way-to-solve-the-problem\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangs flourish when the state fails its citizens. Banning colours and getting \u2018tough on crime\u2019 won\u2019t fix anythingThe US has its mafia. Australia has its bikies. New Zealand, a country often understood as more innocent than its larger, more dangerous En&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1067,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gangs","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47328,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47327\/revisions\/47328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}