❓ Mr. Johnson questions the Premier about the disproportionately high imprisonment rate of Aboriginal people in WA, citing ABS figures. The Premier deflects, accusing the previous government of inaction and claiming his government is addressing previously ignored crimes.
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ABORIGINAL PRISONERS - AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS FIGURES
I have a supplementary question. Can the Premier explain why, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures, under his government Aboriginals are 18 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous Western Australians, which is the highest figure in the country? They are not my figures; they are ABS figures. Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I have a supplementary question. Can the Premier explain why, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures, under his government Aboriginals are 18 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous Western Australians, which is the highest figure in the country? They are not my figures; they are ABS figures. Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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Apart from the acknowledgement that the opposition has been able to do some research and produce documented support for its assertions, I refer the member to the statements that the Commissioner of Police and I have made. Mr R.F. Johnson : What have you done? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: Apart from the acknowledgement that the opposition has been able to do some research and produce documented support for its assertions, I refer the member to the statements that the Commissioner of Police and I have made. Mr R.F. Johnson : What have you done? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Apart from the acknowledgement that the opposition has been able to do some research and produce documented support for its assertions, I refer the member to the statements that the Commissioner of Police and I have made. Mr R.F. Johnson : What have you done? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson : What have you done? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: Apart from the acknowledgement that the opposition has been able to do some research and produce documented support for its assertions, I refer the member to the statements that the Commissioner of Police and I have made. Mr R.F. Johnson : What have you done? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Apart from the acknowledgement that the opposition has been able to do some research and produce documented support for its assertions, I refer the member to the statements that the Commissioner of Police and I have made. Mr R.F. Johnson : What have you done? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson : What have you done? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : There has been a significant change in Western Australia since we came to government. There were issues that needed to be dealt with by the government and issues that needed to be dealt with by the police. Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson : The rate will be higher if all those other ones are dealt with. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : On the opposition’s own admission today, the opposition’s former Aboriginal affairs minister said that the opposition did nothing about it when it was in government. Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson : No, he did not. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Nobody wanted to address those issues. No-one was dealing with the issues that we are now dealing with. Of course, there is going to be an impact. If we stop ignoring crime in Aboriginal communities, there must be an impact. Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson : It will go higher. You have only just started taking an interest in sexual assault in Aboriginal communities. The prison population will go higher. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me rephrase it this way. The level of analysis that the member for Hillarys is capable of is minuscule. His entire response to law and order issues is to castrate or hang people. We live in a more sophisticated world than that. Until we got into government and began to address the issues, there were numerous crimes against people in Aboriginal communities perpetrated by Aboriginal people that went unattended. That is the guilt that members opposite have got to live with. They had eight years in government and they did nothing. Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr R.F. Johnson interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : That is what is being reflected in the figures: people who have been committing crimes for years are now being brought to book.
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