Internal figures from Northern Territory police show a reduction in some crimes since the alcohol bans came into effectThe alcohol restrictions are currently planned to end at the end of April but police are recommending extensions
A leaked NT Police document has revealed the force is recommending additional restrictions to the sale of liquor in Alice Springs, including further restricting bottle shop opening hours and introducing volume limits for customers. "There is no doubt that our antisocial behaviour in our family and domestic violence and assaults have reduced markedly — the statistics are very clear with that," he said.
Domestic violence researcher and Alice Springs resident Dr Chay Brown has cautioned against reading too much into figures from such a short time period. "In the data period that they're referring to is when kids have gone back to school, and there are a number of other interventions at play."
Gaslighting 1st class
Dear experts: Can we say alcohol bans seem to be effective then.
Ohh yes ABC we all know how you report the lies... Children are being raped and living in shit...Adults are beyond help and the city shops continue to close ....So stop the snowflake lies
LOL. Journalism at the ABC isn't very effective. The ABC are too busy talking to listen. They are too busy making stories up and calling people white supremacists. Defund ABC we shouldn't have to pay for their shonky Journalism ABCFail
Bulk Alcohol buys occuring in Darwin. Headed south.
Since when? Yesterday? Bullshit is the appropriate phrase.
ABC News? That’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one. DEFUNDtheABC
Mmm... Just a random coincidence.
I'm sure 1/50 experts agree.
Who are these experts ?
'In late January, immediate measures restricting alcohol sales was launched. A month on, new data shows break-ins are down 45% and there has been a 30% decrease in domestic violence and a 36% decrease in youth disturbances.' I wonder why Crime has dropped 🤣
The experts that live in trendy suburbs in the city?-clowns that have never lived in the outback 🙄
Ridiculous statement
Only because they bused a heap of trouble makers to other towns who now have to put up with them
ABC News Remember you are allowed to report Good News Stories You are continually putting out bad news stories 🤬
Not allowing people to spend all their money on alcohol is racist.🙄
It’s only early days give them time
Given that the ABC was a strong supporter of removing alcohol restrictions it's hardly surprising their department of propaganda is now pushing the narrative that the reintroduced bans may be ineffective.
what totally awful people that they need to have alcohol taken off them to reduce domestic violence and anti-social behaviour
Maybe DanielAndrewsMP needs to pay them a visit and set up a few“safe drinking and assaulting rooms” 🤭 It appears to be working for the Melbourne safe injecting rooms.
theirabc defundtheabc sick of the wasting of taxpayer money funding this pathetic excuse for a news organisation
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🙄 fk me the ABC is bad now
gotta love those 'experts'
Experts, the term experts went out with the fraud called Covid.
Experts 😂
That was quick, and I don't believe you at all.
'The fact that we're seeing a decrease very quickly is actually quite worrying.' Worrying bc your intersectional, intergenerational trauma driven PhD alternative hypothesis is wrong.
'Experts' - the ABC's term for 'someone we dragged off the street that will say what we want them to'. Ban - crime down No Ban - crime up But there's 'no correlation' say the 'Experts. How does the ABC get away with printing this shite?
The word 'expert' is rapidly becoming synonymous with the word 'toady'.
The ABC's experts are too woke to accept that the ban has worked.
A glimpse of the lawlessness of self-rule. They believe it will solve everything, oblivious to the care, safeguards, support and generous funding they take for granted. Like kids bemoaning the abuse of having rules and demanding the car keys, to get all the lollies.
'experts' Which ones? There are experts that say it does, and experts that say it doesn't. Every opinion has its 'experts' but I prefer opinions that get results.
Of course the ABC consults a whole different group of ‘experts’ when reporting on alcohol related crime in Sydney
I'm so sad whenever I hear news about Alice Springs. I grew up there, and it was getting bad in my teens but it just sounds worse every time. Alcohol Ban is good, but there's gangs and violence, and spite that will take generations before it's ever really peaceful.
‘In spite of alcohol bans, violence has decreased.’
Only the ABC can't see 123.
Nah the ABCs experts are frauds
Alcohol restrictions that the Indigenous community wanted left in place that was removed by the government.
Experts are not experts on stopping crime. To stop you need to eliminate each scumbag individual
It's a lost and very hot town
ABC “experts” are always anti-intervention. The ONLY thing that enables indigenous communities to move forward is intervention.
ABC experts must be cherry picked, politically aligned hacks No diversity of opinion allowed
Which experts? The Labor government ones?
Keep finding other ways to stop crime in Alice Springs than just arguing
The ABC and their ‘experts’ If they were to predict a drought, I’d go get my raincoat
What rubbish, of course crime rises & falls with alcohol consumption. Local leaders begged not to have restrictions lifted but of course it’s never Albozo’s fault is it!
Oh please
Can we see some of these experts? They get a lot of shit wrong
‘Experts’ eh !? - they’re really credible aren’t they 🤣🤣
Aboriginal culture and parenting has failed time for the return of government run homes to educate and teach the aboriginal youth morals and a sense of community.
kek glad crime has dropped glad the drinking has been reduced
Doesn't it literally mean that though?
So it means the offenders are locked up then? Hope so.