You'll have caught up on this by now - we've found out police have not been enforcing the law since it was passed three years ago, they haven’t issued a single fine over it, and it's deliberate.
And the Police Union says the reason is because, frankly, cops are busy. And this is not a cop problem, this is a health problem.
I could not agree more. We know police can only do so much, so let's prioritise it. I would personally prefer they were preventing crimes, catching bad guys and putting them in jail, getting stolen stuff back, putting pressure on gangs and keeping our roads safe with booze buses and drug tests.
I could go on and on with my list of priorities for what I want the police to do, and I would go on for a very long time before my list ever hit - stopping stupid parents smoking in their cars with their kids inside.
How is that a police job?
Frankly, if parents are that dumb that they're hot-boxing a car with tobacco while their kids are inside, they're doing that at home as well.
Having the cops come round and give them a crack about the car thing might make the rest of us judgemental drivers feel better, but it’s not going to save the kids. They’re getting that smoke anyway from somewhere else.
This was always a dumb law, simply because it would take up a huge amount of resource for a cop to chase down a car over a ciggie when they could be using that time to prevent a crime from happening.
I actually think Mark Mitchell's done the wrong thing by stepping in and forcing the cops to start enforcing this. He knows they’re stretched already, he's just made that worse.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show HERE - where this article was sourced.
7 comments:
How sensible you are Heather! Of course you are right and Mark Mitchell should just abolish the edict.
Come on. Everyone knows the Police's main role is to enforce woke propaganda. If they actually fight crime, that's being systematically racist.
For Anon @ 5.39 AM - Question - "do you think that the current Minister of Police is capable of achieving anything". He has made many comments about 'Policing going forward", have you (or any others) seen that happening?
I agree with you 100%, Heather.
This is, firstly, a ridiculous law and secondly a total waste of police time.
It's in the same category as police enforcing "hate speech" laws and arresting anybody who says that a woman is an adult human female !
Police are faced with a recurrent problem here. However artfully worded, and despite current msm attitudes, any directive to go soft on maori will likely leak out and generae fuss. And without such a directive, actual or implied, maori will likely figure disproporrtionately which will send the whole highly paid Waitangi Tribunal with hangers on and the whole insurgency movement into a frenzy. Police certainly do not look for work currently. Having expereinced a minor assult and separate but associted theft, well over $1000 together , with witness', videos etc they have no intention of pursuing charges. NZ has changed from when it was orderly. The late Petetr Williams QC told of being charged as a child for theft of an abandoned derelict bicycle worth maybe 4 pounds.
Robert Arthur, in response to your comment re NZ Police not pursuing minor crime (such as your incident) - "a coal miner's canary" has told me that this attitude also applies to car theft.
Hi Anon 5.37. Especially competent sounding officersa are assigned to answere the 105 line. They sound intelligent, motivated and interested and carefully note all that is stated. but it seems to be just a PR front to placate the caller.
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