Why is NZ Police accountability being questioned?

Critics argue that expanding police powers, combined with weak oversight and media compliance, has reduced accountability in New Zealand.

What role does the media play in police accountability?

Media scrutiny is essential for accountability, but concerns have been raised about journalists and outlets appearing to defer to police narratives.

What are the 'move on laws' in New Zealand?

Move on laws give police expanded powers to direct individuals to leave public spaces, which critics say could be used excessively or unfairly.

What oversight exists for NZ Police?

Oversight includes bodies like the Independent Police Conduct Authority, but critics argue these mechanisms are insufficient or lack enforcement power.

Maiki Sherman’s capitulation to NZ Police and NZ Police capitulation to Trash Queen and Netflix

The NZ Police accountability debate is no longer abstract — it’s playing out in real time across media, politics, and the courts. From expanded powers to media capitulation, the question isn’t whether oversight exists. It’s whether it still works.

The NZ Police have become a law unto themselves.

When power expands but accountability shrinks

The new street spying powers they are gaining with the Move on Laws.

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The jump in cannabis possession laws.

The harrowing cover-up of child abuse and bestiality aficionado Jevon McSkimming.

The ongoing cavalcade of miscarriages of justice because Police have actively framed innocent people for crimes they did not commit.

Add alongside this list, the deplorable capitulation to NZ Police by TVNZ Political Editor Maiki Sherman, who threw her colleague Benedict Collins under the bus not because he had lied, but because he had told the truth about gang numbers!

Add also the deplorable manner in which the NZ Police bent over backwards for Trash Queen Dame Julie Christie and Netflix for their propaganda doco covering their killing of Tom Phillips.

Media, power, and who gets protected

I appreciate New Zealand is a settler nation with all the cultural hang ups that comes with that.

The NZ Police formed out of the Mounted Constabulary who a thug force that was used the bejesus out of Māori on the edges of settlements.

There has always been an unwritten contract between white New Zealand settlers and the NZ Police, we will turn a blind eye to any heavy handed abuse the Police met out late at night when no one is watching as long as they make us feel safe.

That cultural hang up manifests in the disgusting authority worship we see from most white Kiwis now when it comes to supporting anything the NZ Police do.

I am not a person who wants to defund the police, I acknowledge we need a Police Force, but what I think we desperately need is a new mental health team who go into mental harm situations before the cops get called, and we need better mental health services for Police and we need far better oversight to Police power so that if they abuse it, they can be called out on it.

When it comes to cops, I’m with NWA.

Look.

Last decade the Police attempted to frame me by claiming I was Rawshark, the hacker who caught Cameron Slater out. I took those pricks to the Human Rights Review Tribunal as the only avenue available to me and I beat the cops. I know full well the barely functioning guardrails to protect citizens against NZ Police abuse of power and I’m telling you all that there needs to be more guardrails to their abuse of power.

The NZ Police have become a law unto themselves.