This week, Martyn takes aim at New Zealand’s long-standing cultural deference to the police — and why it’s time to break it.
Born from colonial violence and immune to real scrutiny, our police force has long operated with too little oversight and too much impunity. The IPCA is toothless. The culture is broken. And the McSkimming scandal is just the latest symptom of a deeper rot.
It’s not just bad apples. It’s a system that lets bad apples thrive. That must change.