Among the complaints under investigation this year is the case of a boy pushed off his bike and slammed to the ground by police. But the news from the U.S. has also sparked tensions in New Zealand over the disproportionate effect of armed policing on indigenous communities, amid a push within the country for more police to carry deadly weapons. I did digress, but so what?
Good luck with your OIA request but don’t expect a prompt response, Aw man ! But go there? Obviously sir you are part of the problem. Musk is busting to get off-planet. Is very interesting IMHO. We’ve got our pale blue dot and that’s all we’ve got. The convictions included speeding, drug dealing and corruption. The statistics reported in the attached documents come from the NZ Police Professional Conduct database ().These official statistics relate to reported incidents received and refer to calendar years..
Official crime stats reveal burglaries and crime rising, New Zealand rates for assaults, sexual assaults and robberies in 2015 mapped, Police slammed for not doing enough to solve burglaries, a woman unhappy that Taranaki police issued a $150 fine to a German tourist driver who crashed head-onto her car, a former police dog handler complained after he was unlawfully arrested in his Upper Hutt home, the death of David Cerven, a Slovakian-national shot dead by police. By signing up you are agreeing to our, Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health and more, © 2020 TIME USA, LLC. A protest group, Arms Down NZ, has raised concerns about the disproportionate impact of armed policing on New Zealand’s Māori and Pacific communities, who make up 6% and 4% of the population, respectively. And they know that. Interconnections … metadata. New Zealand Police have tried to “soften up” the public to accept generally armed police through policies to introduce tasers, carry weapons in squad cars, police being generally armed in Christchurch and elsewhere while the police searched for a wanted person and more recently have sprung a trial of “Armed Response Teams” on us. Where’s the love and kindness…? Going to Mars or the Moon is a bull shit story to normalise the suspiciously abnormal interest in being off-earth. Canterbury teacher remembered as 'visionary educator, colleague and friend', Wireless Ford, 30, gets life for 'particularly brutal murder' of father-in-law, All Blacks great Sean Fitzpatrick: ‘Laurie told me I was too fat, too slow and too arrogant’, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend lose baby after hospitalisation, Prince Philip 'very, very disappointed' in Meghan's failure to support the royal family - reports, Trans-Tasman travel: New South Wales and South Australia to be first states to welcome Kiwis, Quiz: Afternoon trivia challenge: October 1, 2020, Pike River search unlikely to find workers' bodies, agency head says, Mother-of-three warns driver to 'watch the road' minutes before fatal crash, NZ Rugby chairman Brent Impey confirms five-team Super Rugby Aotearoa for 2021, expansion for 2022. In short: They fuck us up then make money out of us from their up-fucking while we’re trying to pay the bills they keep sending while some of us go all vulgar and feral at street level. Yep. Im not sure about Israel but they are definitely working with Chinese police- https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/112632211/chinese-police-officers-set-for-training-and-information-sharing-in-new-zealand. Don’t you hate it when you write a great missive/rant combo then you lose the lot because you’re a dumb ass with fat fingers? Mate You have no idea why the cop has that bloke by the throat, he may have killed his own grandmother or just bragged about being C19 positive and been spitting at all and sundry for all you so non nonsensical comments along that line are a waste of oxygen. A protest planned for Tuesday in Sydney was canceled after threats of violence, according to the Associated Press. The Green Party, which is in government in coalition with Ardern, issued a statement on Monday morning. The IPCA found police were justified in shooting him, but the watchdog noted the officers precipitated Cerven's response and there were other actions, including negotiation, that they could have taken - also noting a communication breakdown between the officers and their command.
Amnesty International have highlighted the same problem. Complaints against police in the first six months of this year include claims over their use of Tasers. Jewish Voices for Peace have documented this exchange in their report Deadly Exchange and describe “the dangerous consequences of American Law enforcement in Israel” and Amnesty International have highlighted the same problem. South Auckland 13-year-old Matthew Heather's family is seeking an apology over the incident last Saturday, filmed in a video posted on Facebook, showing him being pushed off his bike to the ground then held up against a fence by an officer. These deaths are built on centuries of injustices and social inequities.”, The party’s justice spokesperson, Golriz Ghahraman added: “The disease of state-based discrimination is not constrained to American borders. The protests were peaceful throughout, with police present but keeping their distance, according to reports. “Despite Prime Minister [Jacinda] Ardern’s international popularity, her government discriminates against indigenous New Zealanders…Ardern’s police force is almost eight times more likely to use violence against Maori New Zealanders than against White ones.” (According to the group, Pacific people are three times more likely to be victims of police violence than white New Zealanders.). Police in the country are not routinely armed, but after the Christchurch shooting in March 2019, when 51 people were killed by a white supremacist terrorist who targeted two mosques in the city, police conducted a six-month trial where some officers were given guns, in order to respond more quickly to similar attacks. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/418125/national-party-deeply-suspicious-of-refugee-behrouz-boochani-s-visa Among the major centres there were 166 allegations made against 147 police staff in the Auckland district, 227 complaints about 196 staff in Wellington, and 187 against 161 staff in Canterbury. The complaints included 44 allegations of breaches of internal policy, 11 about performance, eight about internal negligence, three about disgraceful behaviour, and three allegations of sexual misconduct in the six months to June.
Police defined service failure as being a perception they "did not provide an adequate service to the public in criminal investigations, victim focus and court proceedings". Police have released details en masse concerning complaints against their staff. We marched to defend Black Lives overseas and to fight for our own lives against our own racist police,” the statement said. The protests in New Zealand were condemned by the deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, who said they violated the country’s social distancing rules and … Public and enduring inquiries into our crooked politicians and those who most profited from their crookedness. © Copyright 2019 TheDailyBlog.co.nz. Protestors perform a Haka on June 01, 2020 in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the first time police have opened up their books "proactively" on criticism of their own. Allegations of police brutality, cops dobbing each other in for misconduct, and victims unhappy with investigations make up the majority of complaints against the ranks. Where was that taken and what happened to the agonised victim? Of the 1312 incidents reported, 1004 investigations were concluded during the same period. There were also protests in Perth, Australia, amid renewed scrutiny over the high number of deaths of Aboriginal Australians in police custody there. Because cultural ignorance is easily exploited. )