Hugs, not bullets, not working

The Telegraph reports:

Mr López Obrador, an old friend of Jeremy Corbyn, has employed a radical approach to the relentless wave of cartel violence in his country: “Abrazos, no balazos.” “Hugs, not bullets” is the idea that poverty reduction and social programmes can provide a substitute for the war on drugs. And it is failing.

How amazing it is failing. Who would have guessed it?

Seems to me that slogan could apply to Labour’s law and order policy in New Zealand – “hugs, not bullets”!