Popular New Zeland cop blames youth violence on video games
Let’s hear if he’s got a better reason than those people who claim to be “experts” in linking violent games to youth violence.
Superintendent Bill Harrison, one of New Zealand’s leading police and national manager of police youth services, has a theory on the connection between violent video games and youth violence. According to him, since the release of the Xbox 360 on June 2005, newspapers cited that a 25% increase of youth arrests in New Zealand occured.
But that’s not all. He has first hand data after watching his son play a specific game on the Xbox 360.
“It was desensitising him to violence. It was shifting his norm about how he would deal with conflict.”
“You see these kids - their hands are wringing wet with sweat because their bodies are taking in what’s going on on the screen and they are acting it out.”
In the end, Harisson called for a planned government study in including the effects of violent games to youth violence.
W-h J: Makes sense if you, as a parent, says to your 5 year old kid that killing cops in video games is the right thing to do while playing GTA. But knowing many people who grew up playing violent games while having a sound mind, “experts” need to try harder to prove there’s a real link between youth behavior to violent video games.
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(Source: GamePolitics)