Singh family complaining about the police

[Patrick]

I think someone watches too much American television....

Yep... Check out those gangsta movies - Crips, Bloods, Killer Beez - and plenty of others... Are you saying they don't watch too much American TV and the thought wouldn't cross their mind?

The point is Patrick that while the majority of the police are able to handle the awesome responsibility of being armed, there are still enough nutters within the force who are not, and some of those nutters are well up the ranks!

As for the fast police response to the recent vandalism in our local area-sending a patrol car around gives the residents confidence and respect for the police, and photographing 'tags' would take a short period of time and allow a possible future prosecution. Response and visibility seem to be vastly under rated as a powerful PR tool within the force.

Geez - lost ya sense of humour, have ya? Do what I did - get out of Auckland.

Yes, if we armed NZ Police tomorrow there would be those who would pull their gun on their own mother for doing 55kmph in a 50 zone, but perhaps a long term plan to properly recruit, train, and eventually arm NZ police is what's needed. Besides, go to Auckland International Airport, and you'll see all the Airport cops have a Glock strapped to their belt

International Convention - All International Airport Police are to be armed.

But yeah, there are some I wouldn't trust with a tea bag, let alone a gun.

[Dakara]

International Convention - All International Airport Police are to be armed.

But yeah, there are some I wouldn't trust with a tea bag, let alone a gun.

Oh yea, what I was referring to is we obviously have some cops we can trust to be armed, and thus must have suitable training, so surely this could be extended.

[tgb_novice]

International Convention - All International Airport Police are to be armed.

But yeah, there are some I wouldn't trust with a tea bag, let alone a gun.

Am I missing something here or the news about the shooting the "International Traveller who refused to pay the departure tax" not make it to the newspaper yet ?

[devnull]

Am I missing something here or the news about the shooting the "International Traveller who refused to pay the departure tax" not make it to the newspaper yet ?

Haven't heard of that one, but if ever there was justification for shooting someone, this surely is:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news...468276475.html

[SixPackBack]

Geez - lost ya sense of humour, have ya? Do what I did - get out of Auckland.

Fuck I didn't know coppers had a sense of humor...bahahaha......and yeah thinkin' about leaving Auckland, where's a good destination? [with no crime and great roads]

[spudchucka]

Fuck I didn't know coppers had a sense of humor...bahahaha......and yeah thinkin' about leaving Auckland, where's a good destination? [with no crime and great roads]

Stewart Island.

[spudchucka]

Please think of all the people you work with. How many would you NOT want to be behind, or anywhere near you, with a loaded gun?

I can think of about 5 or 6. But then they aren't anywhere likely to be in a position to be a first responder to an armed incident. The job has a way of finding those types a specialist niche position that keeps them away from such matters.

[Swoop]

The job has a way of finding those types a specialist niche position that keeps them away from such matters.

I believe the term is "management" (it applies to all of our useless bastards).

[SixPackBack]

Stewart Island.

Cheeky c00nt

[spudchucka]

I believe the term is "management" (it applies to all of our useless bastards).

"Dressed for export" as it is often referred to.

[Genestho]

IMHO if we all started to take responsibilty and get active in our communities there would be less of this petty crime, that leads to violent crime.

If all of us that agree that punishments are not fitting to crimes and spent less time arguing about it in a forum and start writing to the policy makers, if we all became flys in their ointment - it couldn't be ignored, if our Justice Minister spent less time on easy fixes and trying to convince the public that violent crime figures are going down when the figures have been steadily going up since the sixties and faced whats happening down here in the real world. A violent crime is reported every 9 and a half minutes in NZ.

If Judges started cracking down at sentencing, if the scales were balanced between victims and offenders rights maybe things could change.

I feel we are on the tip of the iceburg with Justice. But unfortunately the only ones active and pressing for change are the ones brutally affected.

Some people are bad to the bone and harsher sentencing is not a deterrent, but yet why we should we have to share our community with people that know there is little consequence or dont care of the consequence.

Ive heard it costs us around $73 g's per year to house a prisoner. I would quite happily forfeit my block of cheese election year tax cut bribe to keep arseholes away from me and my kids.

And I am sick to death of the "oh he had a bad upbringing" defence, we all have choices. Even the bad bastards are able to make a choice.

The minority pc groups have a loud voice, I find it strange that so many kiwis feel the same about justice or lack of, and yet our voices are not heard, are we not loud enough?

If this big story concerns you, dont wait for the next big story to concern you and say the same things over and over, walk the walk and get active now, before the next big story IS you, or your mother, or your child, or your wife, or your husband.

And I may get red repped for this, but im afraid in some cases I have a very direct and unpc manner on this subject these days - if you think you can do a better job than the cops and what they face, get out there and do it yourselves - they could use the help, or shutup.

[scumdog]

An annoying factor some may not have noticed is:
Too many judges give soft sentences ( we ALL know that -except the judges I guess).

So when a decent judge sinks the slipper into a crim arsehole and gives him a proper sentence what happesn?

Said crim appeals, they see the sentence is more severe than all others for that type of offence - and the penalty is dropped back to the bench-mark soft-as sentence.

[scumdog]

Im talking about the dollar figure each cop has to collect everyday.

Oh, never knew that, I looked in all my books and can't find that 'dollar figure' - maybe you could tell me how much it is???

BTW: Lost out today, no dollars collected.

[jrandom]

Interesting, in the news today: PM pushes for blitz on bottle shops.

Prime Minister Helen Clark wants to crack down on the number of liquor outlets in poor areas of New Zealand in the wake of killings and robberies that have shocked the country.

...

The police had a "grave concern" about the role of alcohol consumption in violent offending in the area.

It would appear that Coldrider and I are not the only people willing to talk about the link between violence and the sale and consumption of alcohol.

[Swoop]

The access to alcohol is one issue. Another is the age at which it may be purchased. Another labourite law-change since "the population is able to control their drinking"... - Tui time.