{"id":10205,"date":"2024-06-10T17:15:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10205"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:15:48","slug":"ram-raids-down-80-percent-compared-with-same-time-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10205","title":{"rendered":"Ram raids down 80 percent compared with same time last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ram raids are down more than 80 percent for the month of April compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified 12 ram raids in April 2024, compared to 64 in April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Provisional police data from April 2017 to April 2024 shows a downwards trend since the peak in August 2022, when there were 86.<\/p>\n<p>There were a total of 433 ram raids in 2022, 288 in 2023, and 67 in the first four months of this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--O_jufj46--\/c_crop,h_1106,w_1770,x_279,y_0\/c_scale,h_1106,w_1770\/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1717994071\/4KOSOQ2_MicrosoftTeams_image_37_png\" alt=\"Provisional police data from April 2017 to April 2024 shows a downwards trend since the peak in August 2022, when there were 86.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"496\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Provisional police data from April 2017 to April 2024 shows a downwards trend since the peak in August 2022, when there were 86.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ NZ Police<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Legislation introducing a new ram raid offence\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/496851\/bill-targeting-ram-raid-offending-passes-first-reading\">passed its first reading<\/a>\u00a0in August.<\/p>\n<p>The Ram Raid Offending and Related Measures Amendment Bill would add &#8216;smash-and-grabs&#8217; to the Crimes Act, and would give police the power to prosecute children as young as 12 with up to 10 years in prison, including for being a passenger, or filming the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Around 70 percent of identified ram raiders were aged between 14 and 17, and a further 12 percent were aged between 10 and 13.<\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ram raids are down more than 80 percent for the month of April compared to last year. Police have identified 12 ram raids in April 2024, compared to 64 in April 2023. Provisional police data from April 2017 to April 2024 shows a downwards trend since the peak in August 2022, when there were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,208,174,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}