4 cheers to the Police
1: The Scott Watson trial is being reviewed after new evidence clearly suggests that the Police lied through their back teeth to convict him on circumstantial evidence.
2: Stephanie Cook, the widow of Halatau Naitoko who was accidentally shot dead by cops (who were allowed to remain anonymous) says she can’t afford to pay for the trips to come in and listen to the inquest into her husbands death, even though Police Minsiter Judith Collins promised to assist her in any way she could seeing as we kinda killed her husband. It seems the second the media attention was off Judith, she forgot her promise.
3: With the Police winning a challenge to the acquittal of George Gwaze, the cops now get to put you on trial twice, this is especially draconian when you acknowledge that Gwaze would never have been charged with sexually assaulting his daughter if he had lived in the North Island and not in Christchurch, (bango twang– you know what I mean)
And lastly Fourth reason to love our Police Force this week, the case of off duty Police Officer Clinton Hill who arrested George Harris, flagged down a passing cop car, and while the other two Officers turned a blind eye, started to dish out some good old fashioned NZ back seat justice. Unfortunately in terror, George Harris managed to escape the beating he was being given and ran directly into the path of a street cleaner and was killed.
This all on top of new powers like the ridiculously subjective drug driving law, lowering evidential thresholds to seize assets and taking your DNA on mere suspicion all rammed through under urgency with zero public scrutiny or select committee oversight, not to even mention the new surveillance powers the Police are trying to slip past with little oversight provisions.
All the while Simon Powers is streamlining the Court process to the efficiency of an abattoir via remote TV screen justice and has Margaret Bazely produce a deeply one sided attack on the legal budget required to fund against the States prosecution by outrageously claiming lawyers are corrupt with little more evidence than gossip.
What we are seeing is the criminalization of poverty fronted by a Police Force with ever expanding powers and ever decreasing oversight.
4 cheers for the Police!
posted by Bomber @ 1:49 pm
6 comments
6 Comments:
At the risk of seeming a little unbalanced, are you going to bother posting 4 good things that the police have done over the last decade?
"...if he had lived in the North Island and not in Christchurch, (bango twang– you know what I mean)"
You keep on with this Christchurch is full of inbred hill-billies shtick - and admitedly it is funny - but you do realise that Christchurch is the only left-wing labour strong hold in the south island don't you?
Bomber so now your comfortable in supporting George Gwaze despite the person whose heresay evidence resulted in his not guilty verdict reversing their opinion when they saw the actual evidence?
Shit man at least do some reading before you spout off in one of your childish rants.
Rua, that is not really the point is it.. The cops being efficient and honest should be the norm. Un-noteworthy and mundane.
However when we are seeing malfeasance, corruption and lying on a regular basis from our police then we should all be screaming as loud as Bomber does about them.
In defense of Ms Collins. I imagine she has been lobbied very hard by the cops and is simply trying to keep her people happy.
However when we are seeing malfeasance, corruption and lying on a regular basis from our police
Bomber named four examples out of how many police over how many years?
2 examples he uses are bullshit anyway.
The police didn't intend to kill the boy on the motorway.
Or do you and bomber think it was murder?
Here are a few more examples of "malfeasance, corruption and lying on a regular basis from our police" http://bcops.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/
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