If the answer is Crusher Collins, the question must be ‘what would make things worse’
I truly despair at the level of political debate in this country. NZ Police have an alpha male chase them to death pursuit policy backed up by an electorate who honestly believe that those who die in chases or who are hideously injured ‘deserve’ it, and what do our politicians have to say – well Crusher Collins believes crushing fleeing cars will be the solution…
Judith Collins: Crushing cars of fleeing drivers could reduce pursuits
Crushing the cars of drivers who flee from police could reduce the number of attempted getaways, Police Minister Judith Collins says.However, Collins says she backs the police and their handling of pursuits, despite a spate of crashes involving fleeing drivers.
A man, woman and 5-month-old baby were injured following a serious crash on State Highway 16, north of Auckland on Thursday afternoon – the third crash involving a police pursuit in recent weeks.
Police were pursuing the vehicle at the time it crashed after the driver failed to stop when police attempted to pull him over for speeding.
…I don’t use the word fuckwit often, but it seems the only possible response to this foolish idea. Collins claims 80% of cars chased are not stolen, meaning Police could trace the owner rather than chase people to death.
How did crushing boy racer cars go again?
No cars flattened by ‘Crusher Collins’
No cars have been crushed under a controversial two-year-old a law promising a crackdown on boy racers.Police Minister Judith Collins was dubbed ‘Crusher Collins’ when the Vehicle Confiscation and Seizure Bill was passed in October 2009.
The options other countries have taken to not do pursuits haven’t been followed up because the local media are too lazy to investigate them and because we have a population who believe that the policy can’t be changed.
We’ll have a special report on Police Pursuit Policy next week and you will be horrified at how many loopholes are currently inside the policy Collins and the Police are holding up.
The bottom line is that all Police policy should have at its base the concept of minimising harm and protecting the public. This Police chase policy is corrupted and it’s killing people, the spineless authority worship that clouds so many NZers minds can’t see that. It’s time to confront those complacent NZers with the facts and truth.
More next week.
Labour last night supported the car crushing idea.
Would that be Phil Goff? He doesn’t count.
wasnt Goff
Labour doesn’t count.
What a waste of time…
how many of the cars in these chases are stolen in the first place ?
One of the many fatal errors made in western societies was Britain repealing the law that required motorised vehicles to be preceded by a man carrying a red flag. 1896, I think it was.
With kar kulcha firmly embedded in western societies, thanks to fuckwits in government and fuckwits the media, and the lunacy of mass motorised high-speed transport now adopted throughout much of the world, THERE IS NO HOPE at this late stage in the game.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Lowest ice cover in history and melting when it should still be freezing.
Accelerating planetary meltdown now accompanies the economic meltdown and the social meltdown.
Thanks a lot ‘Top Gear’.
The question was – “Who should John Key’s cell mate be while he awaits execution for treason?”
Uncle Bully
Can we crush the cars and or houses of those public officials who fail to stop lying and or behaving in a corrupt manner?
Chasing these idiots is not a good idea, they only succeed in killing innocent people? Get the number plates and call up the Police Helicopter?
If we crushed all the cop cars that crash in pursuits the plod would soon all be riding bicycles.
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Dave – No thanks, just had a sandwich.
cluckwit
And how do you trace who was driving the car? When they are registered to persons unknown, have no address or date of birth of the owner, or were sold, or the owner claims they were stolen at the time of the pursuit, or that they lent the car to a friend who they only know the first name of?
Unless you are proposing to institute draconian policies that make the registered owner of the vehicle legally responsible for the actions of the driver
As long as you and others like you, Jollo, take responsibility for innocent people being mowed down by fleeing drivers.
It’s easy to be an armchair warrior in such matters. Not so easy to bury a loved one caught up in one of these incidents.
Collins is out of touch with overseas practice on pursuit of drivers so she needs to be sacked for being just a chump and leaving kids to carry on dying, so from now on every death attributed to police chasing shall be put on a growing list of those who perished by a dumb assed Minister of injustice.
Simplistic tosh from Collins to a complex problem – but a great soundbite for loranorda zombies.