Here's another policy that works, for Labour to think about: ACT will bring back three- strikes for serious, violent offences. There are 13,000 offenders on the first strike; just over 600 offenders on the second strike; and 24 of the worst violent and sexual offenders in New Zealand serving their third-strike sentence. The fact that Labour doesn't understand how these numbers show that it actually works is quite bizarre. Every police officer I speak to wants three-strikes legislation. But we'd go further and bring in three strikes for burglary. To be a burglar, you've lost all empathy for your victims, and it must be treated more seriously. Most burglars are caught every 15 to 20 burglaries they commit—get caught a third time; you serve the full sentence. That must be reassuring for the 289,000 victims of burglaries last year.