The government promises banning gang patches and giving police more dispersal powers will "restore law and order" and reduce crime. But there is no research evidence to support these claims.

Police say gang patches are a license to print money, and want those who repeatedly break a ban on patches in public to be barred from having them in their own home. But what counts as gang ...

Gang patches seized by police following the gang patch law crackdown on organised crime. Montage / Phil Welch Police have laid more than 6000 charges against gang members – and seized 132 ...

The feds have called the Mongol Nation "the most violent and dangerous" biker gang in the country, and they're trying an unusual tactic to dismantle them: Stripping them of the trademarked patches ...

Gang patches will be banned from being worn in public from November 21. By RNZ. Police officers are ready to enforce the ban on gang patches, the Assistant Police Commissioner says.

gang patches A curated collection of links The Record What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these ...

Gang Patch ban in home order 'railroaded' through without proper consultation - Law Society; Black Power member says gang patch ban will be ineffectual, issues amusing challenge to MPs ...

Government Ministers are being accused of deliberately dodging consultation on a new power that would allow courts to ban gang patches in the home. Expected to pass its third reading in the House ...

International research suggests many anti-gang policies actually increase crime, rather than reduce it. These local experts could help us do better – if New Zealand’s politicians would listen.