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Is it my imagination or was there a blog post about the IPCA on TDB late yesterday evening, or did it get strangled by the long arm of reputation management legal eagles? I was half asleep.
Epstein, McSkimming, IPCA…nothing being covered up, no conspiracies, nothing to see here, everythings transparent and uncorrupt as the day is long…Pike River, Cave Creek, Erebus, hundreds of lives extinguished, yet no charges against anyone, all hunky dory…you can imagine that certain phonecall being made, “Hello, police investigating such and such, its the government here, these will be your instructions now”.
But if an ordinary person catches the wrong size fish they could be facing gaol time.
Seriously, in Aussie if police objectivity is drawn into question, they can always get top cops in from interstate, or call in federal police, but in NZ the police are all there is. The Commissioner is not even contactable by the public. And IPCA is all the oversight there is, so if IPCA is lacking…its wild west.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/07/19/guest-blog-jackie-foster-watchdog-or-lapdog-time-to-reassess-the-ipcas-role-in-new-zealands-democracy/
Can we be clear about what is being discussed when on Open Mike please! Pike River, Cave Creek, Erebus, hundreds of lives extinguished, yet no charges against anyone, all hunky dory… and that connected with IPCA which means what? I and many others don’t know what it is? So I look up on google and as I’m complaining I’ll answer my own complaint in a practical way. This is what google has so you are informed fellow readers.
IPCA – Independent Police Conduct Authority of New Zealand
Independent Police Conduct Authority
https://www.ipca.govt.nz
The Independent Police Conduct Authority handles complaints about the NZ Police. If you have a complaint about the Police, you can come to us.
Complaints
The quickest way to complain is to use our online complaint form …
Contact Us
Contact us · Phone. 0800 503 728 freephone (NZ only). (04) 499 …
About Us
MANA WHANONGA PIRIHIMANA MOTUHAKE · Mana Whanonga …
What we do
The Independent Police Conduct Authority is the only official New …
What you can complain about
INDEPENDENT POLICE CONDUCT AUTHORITY …
What is happening in NZ? Before going off to kneejeerk judging, people found with objectionable material could well be police – they have to know what is going on, what it looks like. Has anyone thought of that? Police used to hold pornography film sessions privately for that reason.
And if we stopped being prurient in Kiwiland adopting false puritan attitudes we wouldn’t find so much shock’inawe arising. At one time 20thC when certain swear words were illegal, it was also illegal to send them through the postal system, speak them on the phone. Which was difficult for police and defending solicitors to communicate the actual words causing the police charge. We can get so naice it is ridiculous.
Youngsters aren’t brought up to know enough about the other sex and be advised that sexual feelings can be strong, or sometimes it’s just curiosity, and then need to be kept in check with a value system that is good for everyone. But we prefer the underhand system and the 100% pure applied to it as well as tourist bumf about the environment. Our social environment has never been that. And guess what, the biggest number, in western countries, of out of wedlock babies for decades was in the USA, and the second was NZ. That was before people just didn’t live together in a de facto union, and civil marriage wasn’t available.
About our sexual approaches that drag in politicians, princes and police at the drop of a helmet or crown! I consider that greed for money, is the biggest malefaction of humanity, then having sex for fun not money is high on the list. Sexuality is a special thing to humanity, where to animals and insects, and plants it is nature and responses are bred into then. We of course decide, using our intelligence, and deride nature. Prostitution is paid, something done as a job and is God’s work I think. How many rapes would be prevented if poor and unattractive men could obtain a voucher occasionally. It could be useful in reducing the crime rate if they had to have a clean record and have worked for six months of the previous year etc, behaved in jail (where in NZ I believe sex is not allowed as part of their recovery to better lives,) Police might adopt that as a pilot project and lead the way to a more balanced attitude to sexuality, treatment and respect for self and others.
Does this Spanish study indicate positives for what are called conjugal visits?
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/5/705
Sexual Satisfaction and Mental Health in Prison Inmates
The main goal of this study was to investigate the association between sexual satisfaction and mental health, and the combined effect of two previously found, statistically significant moderators: partner status and sexual abstinence. In-person interviews were conducted with 223 participants (49.327% males and 50.673% females). The effect of sexual satisfaction on mental health and the interactions of sexual satisfaction × partner status, sexual satisfaction × sexual abstinence, and sexual satisfaction × partner status × sexual abstinence were examined using simple moderation and moderated moderation tests after controlling for a set of sociodemographic, penitentiary, and interpersonal variables. Results revealed a direct relationship between sexual satisfaction and mental health only for the sexually abstinent group. Partner status was not significant as a moderator. It seems that the lack of sexual relationships is more powerful as a moderator than the lack of a romantic relationship. Additionally, the sexually abstinent group showed lower levels of sexual satisfaction in those with a partner outside or inside prison, and lower mental health independently of the current romantic status, than sexually active inmates. These findings point to the importance of sexual satisfaction to mental health in sexual situations of extreme disadvantage
[There has been an attempt to make a meaningful study based on known factors. Towards the end it states: ]
Apropos of the limitations of this work, this study is correlational so causation is difficult to infer although we used a short-term longitudinal design. Also, a few participants affirmed engaging in homosexual behavior. Despite our stressing the confidentiality and anonymity of the study, homosexual contacts might have been underreported by the inmates.
The Spanish context is conservative in character, where heteronormativity (the cultural assumption that heterosexuality is the only valid social norm) is tied deeply to culture [103]. These values are definitely prone to be found in prison inmates too [104]. In this context it is not easy to acknowledge engaging in homosexual behaviors. However, all the participants pointed out they felt very comfortable during the interview and disclosed information that they considered sensitive and important.problems that would affect the interpretaton of the outcomes..
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