Chris Hipkins

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455 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Unfiltered with Dave Letele · #47 Chris Hipkins · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

So any kid who'd done more than five ram raids, we basically made a list of them.

And there are 96 kids on that list.

So at the core of what we were saying, there were 96 really troubled kids getting into trouble all the time.

And then I said, OK, well, let's do the next thing.

Let's go through these and figure out what's going on with these kids lives that they're out there stealing cars, driving them into businesses and so on.

Well, about I think it was about 90 percent of those kids had been the subject of or witness to family violence.

about the same number had had a someone in their household who had been involved in the criminal justice system so they've been into prison or they've been arrested or they've been on home detention and when we started when we started working with all those different government agencies to say let's support those families let's figure out what's going on that means that the cycle is continuing let's do some proper support so if the parents don't have driver's licenses let's help the parents get driver's licenses

If there's drug and alcohol addiction in the household, let's get them support to deal with that.

When we did that, within a very short space of time, 75% of those kids, and bearing in mind these were the ones who were the most in trouble, they stopped reoffending.

And that meant there was still 25% that we needed to do even more to kind of get them out of trouble.

But that's a heck of a turnaround rate.

So you compare that with something like a boot camp.

80%, 90% of kids who go to boot camps end up re-offending.

Here was a program that didn't have all of the sort of sloganeering that a boot camp did, but it actually worked for 75% of those kids.

Now, I'm pleased.

They don't talk about it much, but the current government have actually continued that program on.

And that, I think, is how we make a difference.

You've got to get right into the base of the issue.

How do we turn these people's lives around?

And it's not just the kids.

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