A NSW Liberals and Nationals Government will create new offences targeting \u2018violence brokers\u2019 and go after the wealth of gangs to address the surge in gangland crime across Sydney.
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The Government\u2019s legislation also failed to strengthen non-parole periods for serious gangland offences, undermining its claims of tougher penalties. The Opposition sought to amend the legislation to close this loophole, but Labor voted with the Greens against the changes, leaving its so-called crackdown without meaningful consequences for the worst offenders.
Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane said more must be done to combat the people recruiting young criminals to act on behalf of gangs.
\u201cSydney families are sick of their suburbs being turned into battlegrounds and the Minns Labor Government has not done enough to stay ahead of these criminals and their methods,\u201d Ms Sloane said.
\u201cIn order to address the surge in gangland violence we need to both target the recruiters and go after what really matters to them, and in many cases that\u2019s their money.\u201d
Shadow Attorney-General Damien Tudehope said the additional funding for the NSW Crime Commission would build on the new powers it was given by the former Liberal and Nationals Government.
\u201cUnder our changes the NSW Crime Commission will be able to expand its expert team and seize the assets and unexplained wealth of more organised criminals,\u201d Mr Tudehope said.
\u201cStripping organised crime groups of their illicit wealth is one of the most effective ways to dismantle their operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow Minister for Police Anthony Roberts said senior police have repeatedly warned the Minns Labor Government that young, inexperienced men were being recruited to carry out gangland crimes.
\u201cOrganised criminals have laughed at the Minns Labor Government\u2019s new ineffective penalties which they could have toughened up if they had accepted our amendments,\u201d Mr Roberts said.
\u201cThe public expects governments to stay one step ahead of organised crime, because these gangs are becoming increasingly sophisticated and ruthless and that\u2019s what the Liberals and Nationals are committed to doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A NSW Liberals and Nationals Government will create new offences targeting \u2018violence brokers\u2019 and go after the wealth of gangs to address the surge in gangland crime across Sydney. Our Plan will: The Government\u2019s legislation also failed to strengthen non-parole periods for serious gangland offences, undermining its claims of tougher penalties. The Opposition sought to amend … Continue reading “Ending the gangland wars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39466,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39465\/revisions\/39466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}