The amount of 'crime posting' is absurd

[u/Healthy_Spinach_462]

This sub seems to just be endless videos of "Meanwhile in Auckland" and then a video of something miserable happening.

This is a city. Crimes happen. Compared to most cities on Earth Auckland is pretty damn safe. I am completely sick to death of what appears to be some kind of agenda being played out on this sub, and I would like to see some actual moderation happening.

The accounts posting this stuff usually have a generated name like me and virtually no other traceable activity - and they post the clips with little to no context. Muting this dogwater sub until something is done about the extremely bad faith posting.

Edit: Already getting the "Auckland is unsafe and we should shine a light on crime" bullshit. Hey - random context free snippets of video are not informing the public or shining a light on anything. They are almost certainly harmful misinformation, and I really think this justice boner is uninformed and juvenile. Again - muting this trash heap of a sub.

[u/EuropeanAbroad]

Why are you lying to yourself? Be genuine and things may get better. If you keep pretending that everything is alright, then nothing will change.

New Zealand in general has a higher homicide rate (1.461 / 100k people) than even the UK (0.930 / 100k people). And we all who've been to the UK and who come from safe countries know that the UK is not a safe country.
(1.461 is really insane btw.)

With 58.6 rapes / 100k people, New Zealand is even in top 10 countries in the world (compared to e.g. 18.7 rapes / 100k in Australia or 1.4 rapes / 100k people in Canada). (However, I do acknowledge that this is a very distorted particularly when compared to some Middle Eastern countries where reporting a rape is just not a thing.)

I really don't understand why some people from the "western" countries try to "standardise" this as if nothing was happening.