From Wikipedia, use on asessment: New Zealand's crime statistics are compounded by the over-representation of Māori. Despite Māori making up only 12.5% of the general population aged 15 and over,[31] 2007 figures show 42% of all criminal apprehensions involve a person identifying as Māori, as do 50% of those in prison. In November 2019 the police launched a campaign to reduce Māori re-offending, as 51% of those in prison were Māori.[32] For Maori women, the picture is even more acute: they comprise around 60% of the female prison population.[33] A report by the Corrections Department says: "The figures lend themselves to extremist interpretations: at one end, some accuse the criminal justice system of being brutally racist, as either intentionally or unintentionally destructive to the interests and well-being of Māori as a people. At the other, there are those who dismiss the entire Māori race as constitutionally 'criminally inclined'."[33] The justice sector's 2014 Briefing to the Incoming Government named the over-representation of Māori as one of the sector's main challenges..