Less than a month out from the election, Chris Hipkins is out of ideas when it comes to tackling New Zealand's rising gang problem and is instead happy to keep handing gangs money, National's Police spokesperson Mark Mitchell says. "Under Labour's soft on crime approach, crime has exploded with violent crime up 33 per cent, gang numbers up 70 percent and there are two ram raids a day. "Yesterday Chris Hipkins said 'we recognise there is a gang element to much of the increase in violent crime' but just a few days earlier Mr Hipkins defended his government's decision to continue funding gang programmes.

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