Hon MARK MITCHELL (National—Whangaparāoa): This is a Government that hates the term "soft on crime". But the reality of it is that it's not just us that's calling them soft on crime; it's 68 percent of people polled in the country that call them soft on crime. It's not just those 68 percent; it's 54 percent of Labour voters that call them soft on crime. There's been a 40 percent increase in gang numbers; a 21 percent increase in violent crime; a 31 percent increase in violent retail crime; and a tsunami of ram raids, youth, and juvenile offending. This Government's record in the last four or five years has been nothing but soft on crime.