Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

As crime looks to be a hot election issue this year I worry about two things, well more than two things, but let’s start with these two.  One - the lack of arrests being made and two - the top-down obsession from the police hierarchy with supporting offenders, not victims.  David Fononga, if you don’t know the name, is the Auckland man who went on a shooting rampage in West Auckland firing at Police. They fired back and he was shot dead. But here’s the thing about him – he’d breached bail a month before this happened, and never been arrested for it. So among the many investigations and reviews launched after this shooting incident, one of them is an internal review of why the Police did not respond to his breach of electronically monitored bail in the first place.  Because, while we’re on that topic, he wasn’t the only one. Five others were at large last week apparently having absconded while on electronically monitored bail. How many people need to be slicing off ankle bracelets and breaching their bail cond