brashandmitchell.com/post/gr… "The very mention of “whānau” is meant to wash away a myriad of gang sins. Yet the view that that we should hate the sin while loving the sinner only goes so far when the sins include meth dealing, intimidation, bloody violence, sexual abuse and rape. In fact, it has been estimated that gang members — who make up a quarter of one per cent of New Zealand’s adult population — are linked to 18 per cent of all serious violent crime, 19 per cent of all homicides, 23 per cent of all firearms offences, 25 per cent of all kidnapping and abductions, and 25 per cent of all the crime harm caused by illicit drug offences. Their appalling treatment of women is no secret."