If South Canterbury Police want to lower domestic-violence then get Sky to ‘black-out’ All Black games

I’m left aghast at the belief by South Canterbury Rugby & Police they can some-how ‘combine’ to drop domestic violence in their region. 

Is this a smoke-screen tactic to divert the public’s attention from a major source of family violence?  

Televised rugby.  

I’m not against the principals of the initiative, after-all this country leads the world in domestic violence. 

There’s one major issue both the Police and Rugby fraternity in South Canterbury seem to ignore.  

High profile rugby games lead to an increase in domestic violence. 

This inconvenient fact comes from none-other source than the Police themselves!  

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It’s rugby-heads getting liquored-up and giving the ‘mrs’ a clip that add to the country’s appalling record. 

Indeed, the local rugby clubs in South Canterbury should feel morally obligated to continuously raise money for Women’s Refuge given ‘big game’ nights lead to an increase in women seeking their services.

Women’s Refuge have highlighted this fact repeatedly.

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Incidents spike when the local team loses.

 

This will be the same in South Canterbury and 'my money' is on the Polices own regional crime stats agreeing with this summation.  

 

Rugby is not the cure here.  

It’s a major problem.    

 

White-Ribbon should be distancing itself from the sport altogether.