NZ Police

[brock_solid]

I never said it was fun and games? i know that it is innapropriate but compared to NZs legal system you rarely get arrested, you steal a car here and you get a couple hours community service, you steal one over there and get locked up. TBH theres is better although compared with their safety and ours, i would rather NZ be the way it is.

[Cornfed]

They're alot more ruthless over there......you get arrested and in jail just for slapping some chicks ass.....

I think the reason is that the system is a lot more of a growth industry over there. They have a huge and growing army of cops, lawyers, guards, probation officers etc whose employment must be justified, so they must be a lot more predatory and charge pretty much any poor young male on any pretext just to keep the system going. We are about 5-10 years behind them in most respects, so it is highly likely that we will end up going the same way in due course, to the extent that we haven't already. If you join the police you can probably expect to be locking up more and more perfectly normal people for vaguer and vaguer "crimes".

[brock_solid]

Relative edivence compels me to beleive we more than likely will not be heading into similar American judicial system simply because we have a lack of sufficient criminals and a much lower population and most crimes commited in New Zealand are by youth but are only petty crimes compared to America.

First thing is that NZ Police do not carry weapons apart from a handful of self defense items and we use more negotiative and communicational tactics rather than systematically treating every minor to major criminal like animals, America pulls out a gun on anyone and everyone breaking the law in any circumstance and without co-operation of the varying parties the suspect will be shot in the leg without remorse, which would never happen here in New Zealand, it has only ever happend a handfull of times with instances such as Stephen Wallace(not sure on the name) still breaking news headlines almost half a decade on.