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NATIVE AFFAIRS: RACISM IN NZ – SEEKING JUSTICE
Police say they've achieved a 35% decrease in Māori youth prosecutions since 2012, under the Whanau Ora based Turning of the Tide policy. But prosecutions for repeat Māori offenders rose up to 5%. And last year, there was no change in the number of first-time Māori offenders.
But the head of the School of Law at the Auckland University of Technology Kylie Quince says despite two years of police recognising unconscious bias, there has been no reduction in the number of Māori being arrested. "No, absolutely not. There's been zero impact."
"All the research shows that most people have an unconscious bias towards people that look like them, sound like them and behave like them. And the flipside to that is that we then tend to have suspicion or don't grant the benefit of discretion to people that are different to us or sound different from us."
Superintendent Penny says police leaders do workshops on the Treaty of Waitangi and New Zealand history. Every officer is challenged to examine their own biases. "So when you are challenged about actually we might have some cracks as individuals, as leaders, yeah, it hurts. And it's hurt some of our people because they say we’re not racist."....
www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/native-affairs-racism-nz--seeking-justice
NATIVE AFFAIRS: RACISM IN NZ - EDUCATE ME
A recent unconscious bias in education report claims some teachers have lower expectations of Māori students and this may influence their achievement.
The report also suggests Māori students take on board negative stereotypes and live down to this expectation.....
www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/native-affairs-racism-nz-educate-me
NATIVE AFFAIRS: RACISM IN NZ - A SICK DISPARITY
A senior lecturer in public health says institutional racism is rife in the New Zealand health sector.
Last month, Dr Heather Came told the United Nations that policy and decision-makers are usually not Māori and do not listen to Māori.
"How we do institutional racism in NZ is that we're incredibly monocultural and so we squash out everything that isn't Pākehā.....
www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/native-affairs-racism-nz-sick-disparity
Police say they've achieved a 35% decrease in Māori youth prosecutions since 2012, under the Whanau Ora based Turning of the Tide policy. But prosecutions for repeat Māori offenders rose up to 5%. And last year, there was no change in the number of first-time Māori offenders.
But the head of the School of Law at the Auckland University of Technology Kylie Quince says despite two years of police recognising unconscious bias, there has been no reduction in the number of Māori being arrested. "No, absolutely not. There's been zero impact."
"All the research shows that most people have an unconscious bias towards people that look like them, sound like them and behave like them. And the flipside to that is that we then tend to have suspicion or don't grant the benefit of discretion to people that are different to us or sound different from us."
Superintendent Penny says police leaders do workshops on the Treaty of Waitangi and New Zealand history. Every officer is challenged to examine their own biases. "So when you are challenged about actually we might have some cracks as individuals, as leaders, yeah, it hurts. And it's hurt some of our people because they say we’re not racist."....
www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/native-affairs-racism-nz--seeking-justice
NATIVE AFFAIRS: RACISM IN NZ - EDUCATE ME
A recent unconscious bias in education report claims some teachers have lower expectations of Māori students and this may influence their achievement.
The report also suggests Māori students take on board negative stereotypes and live down to this expectation.....
www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/native-affairs-racism-nz-educate-me
NATIVE AFFAIRS: RACISM IN NZ - A SICK DISPARITY
A senior lecturer in public health says institutional racism is rife in the New Zealand health sector.
Last month, Dr Heather Came told the United Nations that policy and decision-makers are usually not Māori and do not listen to Māori.
"How we do institutional racism in NZ is that we're incredibly monocultural and so we squash out everything that isn't Pākehā.....
www.maoritelevision.com/news/national/native-affairs-racism-nz-sick-disparity