NZ MPs Resort to Private Security as They Face Increasing Threats

While threats were already an issue for New Zealand MPs the last time they were asked in 2014 (before the pandemic), they now have a far greater fear of a fixated person hurting or killing them or members of their family. As a result, they’re reducing the time spent in public, fearing being home alone, changing their routines and losing time from work as levels of result of abuse and harassment rise, a current update to the research reveals. The academic journal Frontiers in Psychiatry surveyed 54 MPs in 2022. It found threats had increased, and were more disturbing than when it conducted a similar study in 2014....