The Panel with Alexia Russell and Tim Watkin (Part 1)

The Prime Minister's chief science advisor Peter Gluckman says building new prisons is not the answer to fighting crime. Prison reform advocate Roger Brooking says our justice system actually perpetuates crime. Tougher conditions to restrict immigration don't seem to have an impact on numbers with levels reaching new peaks. Paul Spoonley of Massey University expalins the why's and wherefores of the latest statistics. The Auckland Council has appealed its own decision on consenting a sea wall at Orewa that's already cost $650k - before being built. Bureacracy gone mad?