National Gang List- breakdown by ethnicity
Andrew Li made this Official Information request to New Zealand Police
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From: Andrew Li
Dear New Zealand Police,
In light of the recent threats by the Ardern government to seize assets from people who are related to or allegedly friends with gang members, there has been a great deal of public interest in the impact that this will have on different ethnic groups.
I assume that the information held by the Gang Intelligence Centre includes a field for ethnicity/racial origin/race/whatever, containing values such as 'Maori', 'NZ European', 'Asian' etc, or links to an ID table for same. As such, one assumes it should be trivial to produce the results of a query against this, either from an existing report or through a query against the database like
SELECT ethnicity,count(1) AS count_individuals FROM gang_members
GROUP BY ethnicity;
obviously modifying the table name and ethnicity field to suit. If ethnicity/racial origin/whatever is recorded as an ID value linked to another table, please provide the contents of said related table so the results can be interpreted.
If this sounds impractical or impossible to produce for some reason, please produce documentation of the schema of the database that holds Gang Intelligence Centre records regarding gang members.
Regards,
Andrew Li
From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe Andrew
I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act (OIA) request below, received by New Zealand Police on 8 September 2022.
Your request is being actioned pursuant to the OIA. You can expect a response to your request on or before 6 October 2022.
Kind regards, Dylan
Ministerial Services PNHQ
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From: Ministerial Services
New Zealand Police
Tēnā koe Andrew
Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act
request, received by New Zealand Police on 8 September 2022.
Please accept our apologies for the delay in providing you with this
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Ngā mihi
Sarah
Ministerial Services | Police National Headquarters
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According to Police, at time of request, the ethnicities recorded on the National Gang List files were as follows:
Ethnicity,percentage
Māori,77%
European,12%
Pacific Islander,9%
Aboriginal/Latin American-Hispanic/South
African/African; Indian; Mid-Eastern,1%
Not Recorded,1%
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