“All of us have a patch on today – it’s not a gang patch today, it’s a whānau patch,” the MC said. We’re trying to make everyone be as one.”From Thursday, police will begin enforcing the Government’s new gang patch ban. “Potentially the police, enforcing a gang patch ban at that event, might have undermined some of that positivity,” he said. The new research, which has been conducted in partnership with police, makes an argument against the gang patch ban. Ihi Research director Catherine Leonard, who led the qualitative interviews with members of marginalised communities, said their research and other evidence did not support the Government’s gang patch ban.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 21, 2024 02:32 UTC