Don't chase the baby-face

The Candor Trust is pleased that the Independent Police Complaints Authority has identified the key problems with NZ Police chase culture, which Candor initially identified as contributing to the jeopardisation of Public Safety. There is a reason our under youth tolls are OECD leading, and the evidence trail leads back to foolish Policing in part.

Institutional issues of major corruption ensure inflexibility, but if the recommendations are not taken on board with the Production of radically different tangible policies, particularly regarding a heightened threshold for commencing chases, and the reduction or removal of babyface chases, then racist results will continue.

The Crash Analysis system has shown a high risk, whereby Public Safety has not featured in Police thinking since 2002, with massively increasing Police chase numbers - primarily concentrated in the Auckland region.

Between 2002 and 2008, 169 of 814 chase related deaths or injuries were visited on innocent bystanders. 5% of chases ended in death or injury, whereas 5% of non commenced or continued chases did not.

A racial breakdown of those killed or injured is distasteful. It reveals that Police are not colour-blind in selecting chase victims. Maori at 16% of the population were allotted 174 chase related fatalities or injuries. Europeans at 5 x the population base (75%) only gained slightly higher numbers of victims at 235 total.

It is clear the conflict of interest with road safety of ever rising offence quotas is behind the spike in injuries, because Annette King signed off a policy permitting use of a computerised quota formula "with increased ticketing" to commence in 2003, as was reported back to the National Road Safety committee (MoT's road safety boss) by Rob Robinson, around this time (Minutes meeting 30 forward).

Police are reqired to produce ever increasing traffic tickets and prosecutions, and they say (when off the record) that by instigating a chase the challenge is easier to meet - as then you can add dangerous driving charges to the initial offense. Clearly Justice Goddards report though incisive is still sanitised.

It was not published, but she may have cottoned on to the fact that young person chases (highly frowned upon internatonally) are particularly incentivised, due to the raft of learner licence breach possibilities. In 2006 the number 2 traffic offence under the quota research model (after speeding)was Driving/Riding outside the conditions of licence. There were 114,191 offences reported, each with a set fee of $400.

Checkpoints are a large chase nexus, because Police are misusing them for surveillance, dodgy searches en maase and drug busts - about 100 per checkpoint, so it is unsurprising that 45% of injurious chases now involve suspected alcohol or drug impairment.

It is repugnant for Police to chase drunk drivers closely and for ay length of time, as it is known to immeasurably increase their crash odds. The risk is doubled by having two fast weapons on the road. Hence we have schoolboys being seriously injured on school crossings, by loco Police cars in hot pursuit of drunks.

The European Commission told Global policy writers in 2007 that, per the NZ Resource Allocation Model experiment, a NZ "Police performance management" framework for road safety, used offences delivered per hour for speed, and drink driving as "productivity measures" promoting (cost) efficiency.

The influence of set targets for "speed checks, breath tests and seat-belt checks" on the toll (under a wider framework of contracted prosecution numbers for traffic offences - Cabinet Paper 3) is analysed via control charts, before resource decisions are made. Further to this on record stuff, Candor has discovered that a double statistic set is used, with one fraudulently exaggerating speed, alcohol and intersection offences used for road safety decisions / publicity. And removing larger crash causes.

Enhanced numbers of person "contacts", afforded by heavy patrols under the "general deterrence model," since 2000, enable better criminal fishing according to one of the researchers J Jones (Effective & Efficient Road Policing in NZ). The discussion document found at Trentham Police College library has pictures of quota impacts around the regions, and notes the model grants opportunities to "disrupt criminal activities" because a "large proportion of criminals are drivers".

Jones also notes as both the AA (Saving Ourselves, 2009) and MoT have, no connection between increased quotas and reduced trauma. 3 MoT reviews in 2005 actually noted a possibility of a corelation to increased trauma, but the MoT scientist just advised to "try to believe it works". In essence this means that the entire NZ road safety paradigm and delivery mechanism is non evidence based, a harmful fraud.

The IPCA review and the coming Police one can not be change agents, for so long as Road Policing is completely dictated by the 2 quota fixing computer programs. This lrge scale tragedy of quota supremacy is unlikely to change over the next decade, given that NZ is piloting an experiment in funding general Police force expansion through alleged road safety activities, in collaboration with European authorities and the World Bank.

Our failure is the template for all second world countries soon to be launched 2020 road safety plans - so a lot of embarrassment is at stake.
NZ as quota tax developer is naturally leading the newly established global initiative "Road-Pol" - an agency to transplant our experimental flunked model to the second world - with World Bank assistance.

Any admission the quota system that has been developed in New Zealand using flawed logic computer programs since 2003 failed in its road safety objective of dual ones (cheap funding of expanding Police forces in unstable regions), would bring billions of loans planned for jacking up second and third world late this year and next into question. So it is likely there will be no real back down, and more likely that Kiwis will remain as sacrificial lambs. Unless Police chase numbers halve rapidly we know the IPC review failed to identify and cull the chase driver, say Candor.

"It's going to take a Royal Commission of Inquiry to bring down this deeply entrenched corruption - that the AA say has killed more people than the battle of Alamein on local soil the last fumbled decade - to a halt," says Candor's coordinator Rachael Ford. Four ex Ministers heads and those of some top cops need to roll - if this happens it will be a sign of hope.

Justice Lowell Goddard's report can amount to nothing, unless the lethal Public Finance Act contract Police signed to conduct very controlled quota experimentation, one that Police alleged to the NRSC that they signed without full understanding is able to be brushed off. Candor will therefore throw it's full support behind the request for a Royal Commission into the unethical population research, about to be lodged by two other major road safety groups. Action will be militant if it's ignored.

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