Avoid the British Police at All Costs
It’s not just the British Police that must be avoided but also their ideological allies who have programmed them into ‘Anti-Racist’ automatons.
Police
Labour’s Dirty Deal with a Senior Cop Exposed: Secrecy Over Service
New Zealanders deserve better than this grubby politics as usual. Labour’s latest recruit arrives under a cloud of their own making. The public will not forget it.
‘I Don’t Think You Have, Mate’
The origins of this lie with a politicised, activist police senior management.
Biometric Surveillance Raises Serious Privacy Concerns
PILLAR is calling on parliament to ensure any expansion of biometric surveillance powers is accompanied by clear statutory safeguards, independent oversight mechanisms, transparency requirements and meaningful protections for privacy rights guaranteed under New Zealand law.
Where Are the Police?
Allegations last year raised serious questions about the priorities of the New Zealand Police, it seems they are more focused on policing online speech than addressing severe criminal behaviour.
Can Police Search Every Phone in a Crowd?
Rutherford urges Supreme Court to block police uses of dragnet cell phone surveillance.
The Missing Man They Won’t Name
How New Zealand's law enforcement became an activist agency protecting a fiction, and the media reinforces the deception.
He Wrote an Op-Ed, Then Police Tracked Him
A legal case in Kansas shows how surveillance technology can distort policing priorities. When authorities can monitor anyone cheaply, the temptation to target critics increases.
When Police Go Into Business With Netflix
Information damaging to police interests was consistently absent from what was initially made public, and consistently only emerged under pressure from persistent journalists. The OIA exists precisely to prevent this.
How Do Fugitives Like Dezi Freeman Evade Police for So Long?
A person going off the grid is one of the greatest challenges police face in trying to find someone, because technology serves as a person’s electronic footprint.
Call for Caution on Policing Amendment Bill
Public trust, once diminished, is difficult to rebuild and recent years of police misconduct should have woken our lawmakers up by now. It is essential that parliament takes the time to get this right.
Lucy Needs Your Help So She Can Sue the Police
My hope is that if the defamatory press release put out about Lucy as a result of the botched police investigation results in findings against the police in court, then they will start caring about whether investigations are conducted competently.
A Useful Tool or Dangerous Overreach?
The problem is that once a power like this exists, it rarely stays confined to one purpose. The same law that clears a footpath today could just as easily clear a protest tomorrow.
The Refusal To Investigate This
Not interviewing the complainant is the most fundamental investigative failure that there is. Not only that, but not a single one of the police officers who arrested me and lied about me was interviewed either. If I made errors of this magnitude at work I would lose my job.