The great dairy strike!

Dairy owners across New Zealand have closed shops for two hours to highlight how unsafe it has become for them. Some quotes from a Stuff article:

• “We worry quite a bit because this year lots of dairies in Taranaki have been robbed. We were robbed. It is horrible.”
• A question to the crowd, asking who had been affected by crime in Wellington, saw most raise their hands. Some in the crowd said it was something they hoped not to see in Wellington.
• “That heinous crime is devastating. There has been a shift towards violence towards anyone on the frontline, from ED nurses and doctors, fire and police, teachers to [people] fronting retail and hospitality. Everybody is having to shield themselves from what is going on,” Bhana said.
• “Every day when you start working you hope that nothing goes wrong and you don’t want to feel like that. We are very exposed but we can’t do much about it. The Government can but we can’t,” Desai said.
• Sunny Kaushal, president of the Dairy and Business Owners Group, said Patel’s death happened because a culture of impunity for offenders exists.

That last point is a key one.