This release critiques the Coalition government's failure to deliver on its promise of 500 additional police officers, highlighting confusion over ministerial responsibility, pay disputes, rural funding cuts, and the unworkable enforcement of the gang patch ban.
How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
There's been a big bust uh by the police called Operation Felix. I'll I'll tell you more about that next hour. But right now, welcoming to the studio, Barry Soper. Hello, welcome to the program. And we're going to talk about gangs here as well. Uh, because the high courts made a ruling.
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political posturing, not effective crime prevention
Pacific drug links, Chinese shadow banking and Organised crime as a geopolitical problemunrealistic burden on under-resourced police
Release: Would the real Police Minister please stand up?Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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