Crime and Media
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How does it feel? Blind
- 27 Apr 2015
- Salient
- The recent attack on Adelaide Road has hit me hard. I, like many people, have walked Adelaide Road late at night. When walking anywhere late at night, the fear of attack is always in the back of your mind, but you walk on. The fear of sexual assault is a reality, but you never actually expect it to happen so close to home.
- Accepted from Salient main feed 68 months ago
- Tagged as:
- crime
Adelaide Road, Kowhai Park, Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Boyd-Wilson Path to Get CCTV, Better Lighting
- 23 Apr 2014
- Salient
- The Wellington City Council will install better lighting and a CCTV camera on the Boyd-Wilson path in response to recent attacks
- Accepted from Salient main feed 80 months ago
- Tagged as:
- arovalley
- wcc
- crime
Boyd-Wilson Field, Waiteata Road, Aro Valley, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Murder in Boulcott Street
- 12 Dec 2011
- Wellington Scoop
- Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 109 months ago
- Tagged as:
- crime
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Tranz Metro Passenger Safety Concerns
- 2 May 2010
- Salient
- Tranz Metro’s safety policies are being questioned by a Victoria University student after a man exposed himself to passengers on the Upper Hutt service.
- Tagged as:
- crime
- trains
- huttvalley
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Growing concern over student safety
- 20 Sep 2009
- Salient
- With a spring of violent attacks around the Wellington region, student safety is quickly becoming a top priority. Within the last month, a young female has been sexually assaulted and several youths have found themselves beaten and robbed on city streets. The recent spout of attacks has targeted intoxicated young people who are by themselves on city streets.
- Tagged as:
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Mt Cook residents warned to lock up
- 2 Aug 2009
- Salient
- Newtown residents warned to bunker down, prepare for Thunderdome. The suburb of Mt Cook, home to a number of Victoria University students, has seen an increase in the number of intruder burglaries recently.
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- crime
- newtown
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The Battle of Manner’s Mall
- 6 Apr 2008
- Salient
- At the end of January inner city Wellington experienced one of its biggest youth turf wars ever. And you thought it was only South Auckland that had problems…
- Tagged as:
- cubastreet
- crime
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Policing the Wellington Night
- 10 Mar 2008
- Salient
- Despite Wellington’s café dwelling art appreciating ‘cultured’ reputation, the 2006 crime statistics have Wellington taking out the top spot for reported rapes in New Zealand. Recently Wellington has been portrayed in various media as a danger zone with an increasing level of violent crime. Salient feature writer Jenna Powell recently spent two nights on the beat with local police officers on the mean streets of Wellington. Here she reports on the various types of crime they faced.
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- crime
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Angela Davis Speaks to Wellington about Crime
- 9 Jul 2007
- Salient
- John Lennon and Yoko sung a song about her, but judging from the audience attendance of activist Professor Angela Davis you’d think she was the rock star. Her audience packed out two lecture theatres, while hundreds more had to be turned away.
- Tagged as:
- crime
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