Ross Meurant: It's Not the Cops it's the Courts

Most mornings now, we wake to read of another ram raid.  We are also confronted with increased shootings and violent crime.   More relevant is, what are the police doing about it? 

Headline this week:  Operation Cobalt: Police issue 15,000 traffic tickets to gang members in disruption tactic. (1)

Issuing traffic infringements in Fendalton, Karori and Remuera won’t reduce crime but definitely it will boost the coffers, for denizens of these sectors do pay their fines, even if it’s only for doing 56 kph in a 50 kph zone.

However, issuing fines to gang members, which will never be paid and has little impact on bandits who ride their chariots irrespective of WOF, registration or legal ownership? Is this the solution to the crime wave?

Ross Meurant: Fundamental Flaw

FUNDAMENTAL FLAW IN ACT’s POLICY allows Courts to replace Democracy.

The latest twist in law-making in New Zealand, firmly elevates the Courts above the Sovereignty of Parliament.

The Supreme Court decision in the Peter Ellis case (1) case, according to MSM “reaffirms” Maori Customary Law over Statutory Law.

Audrey Young somehow got Grannie Herald to publish her bombshell on this abuse of position by the Courts. (2) [I acknowledge that many don’t read pay to read premium viz Herald, having been turned off by the haemorrhaging Maori terminology this once great Guardian of the Fourth Estate.]