The Hand Mirror

The perennial cheerleader for arming New Zealand Police, Greg O'Connor, is at it again.  In true NRA styles, O'Connor has renewed h...

Trigger warning:  Explicit discussion of incompetent sexual violence investigations underpinned by rape culture.  Please be careful reading....

Some quick links: Release from NZ Police - Young women to receive apology for shortcomings... Herald report - IPCA: Police "let do...

NB:  These points may already have been made, and made well, elsewhere. I've been largely keeping away from the Roast Busters stuff as I...

It is the 8th of November 2007 at 3.30pm, we are in the park next to Symonds St cemetery. We are waiting. The solicitor general is going to...

I was not in New Zealand in 1981, although it may have played a role in my parents deciding to move here; the protests against the tour were...

Same old, same old, really. The details are here (NB: may be triggering): Cop on sexual assault charges . There's a twist in this story...

In this morning's Sunday Star-Times there's a report about the notorious "cougar" police recruiting ad (see Maia's pos...

From the Herald (via No Right Turn ): Police Minister Judith Collins said the actions of looters was akin to "people who rob the dead...

The existence of the New Zealand police taps pretty much into the core of my rage at the best of times. And their recruitment campaigns are...

Years ago, I heard a story. A young, and new, constable was posted to Rotorua in the 1980s (yeah it's not a happy story). I don't ...

i'm busy at work so don't have time to cover this issue properly, but here is gordon campbell on the post on the government's d...

following up on this post i did last week about police advice to south asians to avoid having flags outside their homes etc, my local ethni...

Tonight (Thursday) at 9.30pm on TV2 (straight after Go Girls ) 20/20 's feature story is about domestic violence , here's the blurb:...

how's this for victim blaming: Auckland police are warning Asian families to keep a low profile to avoid becoming the target of burglar...

It never ends : The woman, whose name is suppressed, argued in a civil case that she had felt obliged to fulfil Mr Govers' sexual reques...

This is a repost - I originally posted it on the 14th October 2007. ********* Louise Nicholas: My Story is a very good book. I feel I should...

The paper had sat on our kitchen table for a few days. The Dominion Post is given away for free at campus and one of my flatmates brings it...

Yes, I've probably extrapolated slightly too far, with my headline, but it really isn't that far from what Family First appear to be...

In a meta moment, the Herald reports on an interview in the NZ Women's Weekly : The teenage girl indecently assaulted by a prominent m...