Hmmm - has anyone thought this through. This article was recently in the paper.
Given the cop works at 8 hour day.shift - that gives him 480 minutes in which to issue tickets - given he issued 100 tickets - he issued a ticket every 4.8 minutes. Does this strike anyone other than me as impossible???
How is it the police man can issue a ticket every 4.8 minutes - anyone who has been pulled over knows that it takes them atleast 10 minutes to get your name and numbers and radio it through., this doesn't allow for the time to 'gun you', you to pull over, get out of your car etc etc ........this reeks of bullshit to me......
I am sorry but this is an example of 'negative' enforcement of the law and does nothing to portray the police in a positive light. We now live in a zero tolerance society where the police are mere puppets of higher powers to be. Bugger being a policeperson today - what an arse of a job.....
400 people are killed on NZ roads - as a proportion of the nz population this amounts to 0.01% of the population - I hardly think this quantifies a statistically feasible reason to redirect the entire efforts of the NZ Police force - I also question when the last time was that someone died from a 'louder than standard exhaust'.
Surely there is a statistically accepted level of road fatalities, where given the number of road kilometres completed by the population, a certain number of fatalities are expected. I was guess at 0.01% - we would be fast approaching this.
The police are developing a very negative image in the eyes of the NZ public as the goverments primary source of revenue collection. Surely if the Government and Police NZ are so adament about reducing the roll toll involving speeding - they would simply introduce a law governing all vehicles to a maximum speed of 120kph - this would solve the problem would it not?? Yes - there would be an uproar - but more importantly - a commensurate drop in the revenue collected - surely not the reason behind such a law being tabled?
The sad thing is - this police was applauded by his comrades and no doubt heralded by his superiors - for what??? Pissing everyone off in his town (Eketahuna), no longer being able to go to the supermarket without abuse, his kids will be picked on at school, NZ now know who he is, giving Police a poor public image. I still, however, question the 'feasibility' of this ticketing and pass judgement that 100 tickets in 8 hours is impossible - it takes you longer than that to write the bloody ticket out.
My understanding is that the police are to 'work with' society.....anyone who has trained any animal will tell you - negative reinforcement is not the most effective or long term method of training - you ignore bad behaviour. Whilst in some cases of speeding etc this is not feasible - what has happened to the 'verbal warning' - gone! As police are now focused on ticketing people.
SO there
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