but what is needed is the best minds in the green party activist mix ACTUALLY linking problems of Justice, Health, Law and Order, Crime and Punishment, Social Justice, Truth, Freedom, Honest Policing, and Envirionment to the War on Drugs - Linking all these ‘holistially’ to the Green reform postition on cannabis.

Is that too much to ask in this day and age?

Blair4Mayor, I just saw this post from yesterday. Our drug policy, which focuses on harm minimisation is here: http://www.test.greens.org.nz/policy/summary/drugs

I’ve read bits here and there over the years and so asked some Greens involved in this area for some specific recommendations. Here are the first few:

Fleras, A. and P. Spoonley, Recalling Aotearoa: Indigenous Politics and Ethnic Relations in New Zealand, Auckland: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. This comes with a warning that while good, it is rather academic in style.

Then there’s a DVD by Richard Green called Te Whare, available from the Treaty Resource Centre website http://www.trc.org.nz. Could be available in some libraries I suppose. The recommendation was to follow this with “Ka whaiwhai tonu matou’ by Ranginui Walker.

1.Tasers.
2.Handguns.
3.Greater arrest and detention powers.
4.More police on the street and less collecting revenue.
5.Remove all the PC nonsense that hampers their ability to gain a conviction.
6.Stop and search powers.

How about enabling some community respect towards policing, respect civil rights not to be surveiled, narc’ed, and snitched, cease militarising the streets and escalating the arms war, use what police we have more effectively instead of the false belief that one more cop will make us incrementally ’safer’, when the sign of sucessful public policy would be one less cop required.

Those who clamour for more police and voting anywhere they are offered are voting for policy failure.

Reiterating again… the highly indicated ‘crime prevention’ is wholesale reform of the ‘war on drugs’ and all its consequences.

It doesnt take courage, it takes common sense.

Well not with me, jh. I said I’d had enough a few weeks ago and recommended you read one of the many good books on the subject to educate yourself. Good luck with that.
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So that mild smack on the bum in “pack n save” all comes down to which side of the fence the police officer investigating happens to fall on.”

Yes, but they are trained and not given leeway to do whatever they like. That there have been so few reports of police overstepping, could suggest they aren’t being strict enough? Still, I’ll take it over big bro’s shoot first approach.

1.Tasers.
2.Handguns.
3.Greater arrest and detention powers.
4.More police on the street and less collecting revenue.
5.Remove all the PC nonsense that hampers their ability to gain a conviction.
6.Stop and search powers.