A little bird sent me the following link. A few might find the spreadsheet
at the bottom of the link to be of interest:
http://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/p...009-march-2018
A little bird sent me the following link. A few might find the spreadsheet
at the bottom of the link to be of interest:
http://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/p...009-march-2018
Jesus that data is a mess. I'm going to spend some time reformatting it and make it a bit more useful.
If anyone wants the data in a more useful format, here it is, flattened. I don't have time to spend any more of my day on it, so this only includes the number of offences, not the dollar values. I also haven't included fixed speed cameras because this data isn't consistent with the rest.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17hj...ew?usp=sharing
Pretty fucking irritating, though entirely predictable, to see just how disproportionately speed is used as enforcement on the roads. But it's easy, and NZ Police generally look for the easy way to do things, so this is to be expected.
edit: Just realised that chart isn't correctly chronological, oops!
Tidied up and flattened the data and included fixed speed cameras, file is available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lzx...ew?usp=sharing
I agree that dollar values aren't particularly useful for this type of analysis.
Quick look at Mikes Data:
Some things leap out of the screen.
Alcohol-Canterbury OMG.
Drugs- Canterbury
Red lights- Auckland ( no surprises there)
Seatbelts- probably too drugged up and pissed to care. Canterbury
Speed Cameras- Auckland and Welly
Mobile Speed Camera- Westies and Shoreites.
Officer Speed- Waikato drivers are mooving.
Officer Speed- Westys
Mobile phones- Canterbury and Auckland, Westies being able to do it on the motorway.
Some of the data is very consistently same provinces.
Most values is interesting as a speed camera is going to pick up hundreds of vehicles 24/7 where as Drugs and Alcohol numbers are probably over a smaller time frame of weekends/nights and targeted.
DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
My take-aways from all this:
- Police talk a big game about alcohol, but enforcement goes into the too-hard basket.
- Either no one in this country is driving under the influence or drugs, or the police don't care. Either way, the probability of being stopped for it is near-zero.
- Speed is overwhelmingly over-enforced compared with other dangerous activities.
- Outside of speeding, you're more likely to be fined by causing a danger to yourself (seatbelts) than by causing a danger to others (mobile phones, running reds, drugs/alcohol).
- I really don't see any good news spin at all in this data. It really does show how insanely myopic NZ police have become (or have always been).
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