>What I find most interesting is the overall Total Crimes Per Capita:
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>LOL. I wonder why you found that interesting? ;-) What about the included rider that "Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence?" ;-)
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>But some of it is true. Unfortunately NZ has an extremely high male suicide rate and violent crime is "up there" in certain sectors of society. Theft and other petty crime is also fairly prevalent in some areas. Not a good look, I know.

When I was there, which was quite a while ago now, much of the crime was being blamed on immigrants from the Pacific Islands. Is that still the case?