Another Police Virtue Signal on Wheels
April 15, 2022
By NZB3
Again? Gay car, farmer car, Pacificar, Maori car and now this. Urban cancer virtue signal police wheels….”A desire to support a good cause and a love of motorbikes has a West Coast Road Policing Officer taking on the Southern Alps on two ‘very small wheels’ in support of the Cancer Society….an endurance event which is aimed to test the typically city-bound scooters and inspired by the hard road many people endure with cancer.”
There’s no end to the leveraging police will do to their own uniform. I suppose because I’ve covered all the other infractions and desecrations of the uniform I’d better weblog this one too by sharing this picture (left.) The argument is made more fully in previous posts..
Ref. Political Policemen
Ref. Policemen are not Retailers
Ref. Skoda Cop Cars
Ref. The 57 Year Old Police Rookie
Ref. 2002: Policepersons, AHNZ
In brief, the policeman’s very existence is based on justice. Without fear or favor, the policeman’s actions must never be personal or in the service of a particular tribe or identity group. He enforces the law, not his preferences or the preferences of his non-official friends or family or master. The New Zealand Police force must never be used to bring economic or political advantage to particular groups or individuals. Right?
That is why the uniform, including the uniformity of vehicles, must be uniform rather than identitarian. The individual strays away from that when they start having personal religious garb such as turbans or tattoos or piercings or Muslim head coverings. Police vehicles now exist with farming, Maori, Pacific, and LGBTQ identitarian affiliations. Adding a cancer scooter to the fleet is more of the same.
The NZ Police are attempting to surf a wave of The Current Thing by hitching their wagon to the shifting tides of fashionable causes. Thank goodness they haven’t (I hope!) created a vehicle with COVID-19 regalia or a Black-Lives-Matter one or a I-Support-Ukrane set of wheels. The door is open to these and other designs as every self-identifying New Zealand sub-culture has a right to ask why it too should not have an official police car decorated for their cause and patrolling their area. We’re fast coming to a point where it will be a Politically Correct decision what car to send or not to send because of the dangerous optics risked if, for example, Maoris were to be busted by the Pirihimana car.
“The State Police continue to add political-cultural symbols to their uniform. New Zealand official documents, uniforms, vehicles, seals, logos etc are required to be free of political symbols.
How can we be cross with Chinese who carry pictures of Chairman Mao with them at the Olympics when our own officials are signalling their in-groups and out-groups too?
If we break that rule now then on what other occasions will we allow the uniform to be used as a billboard? And who decides which political message? The commander or individual officer? Next thing you know police cars will start looking like Nascars. Already we have Maori, homosexual, rural, and now Pacifica cars.” – Anarkiwi, August (2021)
When your police force, fleet and personnel alike, start to resemble a Christmas Parade then you know you’re living in Clown Word. They have a tiger by the tail here that will eventually turn around and consume them. The only way to pacify is to keep on minting more and more vehicles. New Zealand’s motorcycles gangs are probably now at the point where they abide by a stricter uniform code than the official state gang. That makes for a very dangerous position for our peace and security.
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Image ref. Scooter: New Zealand Police, Facebook (14 April 2022)
Image ref. Tractocop: Police to take to the waters on Labour weekend to unveil their new jet ski, Stuff (2018) (oh no, another thing!?)
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