Posts by Matthew Poole
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to BenWilson,
Ya, anyway all the good biffo happens in the station, where cops are the only witnesses.
It's much easier to justify the use of force if it happens on the street. And to blame "clumsy" crims for their own injuries.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to BenWilson,
This would be done after having passed their own bill? I don’t think they’d want to look like such fools. Indeed, I don’t think they really want it to become bigger news, that they have used urgency for something like this. It would be the perfect example of why NOT to do that.
The agreement by Labour to vote for the Bill had to have been made before the Bill was presented to the House, though. Otherwise how did they get their compromise position inserted?
If you're suggesting that Labour should've then welched on the deal and voted against the Bill despite having agreed to vote for it in order to get their compromise, then you're advocating that Labour behave in bad faith and in a manner that would diminish Labour's ability to achieve anything while in Opposition.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
the easiest way to get around them will be to park in front of whoever you pull over
Yeah, except that there are many good safety reasons to park behind them, none of which is related to capturing things on camera. Or are you talking about the cops who pull people over for the specific purpose of doing them mischief, as opposed to the ones who pull people over for some valid exercise of their legal powers?
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Sacha,
If Labour had any reason to be confident in its comms ability, then they could explain why they voted against the CERA bill, tell voters positively what their preferred solution would be and campaign on that basis to become the government so they can fix any problems after November.
Which might've been a credible response to the file-sharing bill, but is actually very much not a credible response to CERA when it's full of draconian powers that will be available for use immediately because "it's an emergency". Plus, in Labour's current situation it would be a hard sell to the public to justify things on "We'll change this really bad law in November." Because if they don't win in November we're stuck with "this really bad law" for at least three more years, by which time it'll be thoroughly embedded, and if they do win in November there's nothing to stop them passing the changes they want to see.
Lots of black-and-white analysis in here of a very grey problem.
As for National "repeal[ing] their own bill, and introduc[ing] a shittier one", why not? It's not hard. They have the votes to do anything they want, and we don't know which sections were amendments inserted at Labour's behest. National could've just put in an amended bill, since this was all done under urgency. The rules are not the same as they are for ordinary procedure.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to 3410,
For starters, if ever that were not the case, the govt. would therefore no longer have the confidence of the House and would have to call an election.
uh, no. Only if the government fails to get a majority on a confidence or supply motion is that true. It's possible (and has happened) for the government to fail to pass legislation without bringing about an election.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Sacha,
Labour is making a hash of connecting with people.
It surely is that.
To quote an FB exchange with my brother yesterday:Brother - "I would really like the [Labour] Party to actually stand for something other than being re-elected" - Dimpost comments section.
Me - Even if that's all it stands for, it's still doing a really fucking shit job of standing for it!
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Russell Brown,
Someone Who Ought To Know tells me that the copy of the affidavit the Dominion Post based its Operation 8 stories on did not come from the police.
From what I recall of things that revelation shits on a lot of the stories about how the cops leaked stuff to influence proceedings, because much of the vitriol being aimed at the police related to that affidavit having appeared in the media and the allegations/assumptions that it came from the police.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
At some point you have to trust the Police, though. The footage is in their care while it's in the car, and streaming video at a resolution sufficient to be useful is quite intensive so it's pretty much a given that there'll be in-car storage, especially when you try and account for issues of certainty as to the source of any given stream. Hundreds of streams is a lot of processing by the receiver, which is not much of an issue if you're just uploading files from disk-based storage but is quite the headache if you're capturing from live feeds.
Even if the footage is uploaded to servers owned and operated by the IPCA at the end of the shift, there's still involvement from the Police somewhere along the way.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
who gets to be the custodian of the footage?
Given that it will be the Police’s footage, I would assume they will. Provided the archival storage systems are robust (write-once, etc), and the procedures around retrieval of footage at the end of a shift don’t involve response officers, the integrity can be fairly easily confirmed. These are not hard problems to deal with, since they’re already done in other sectors and other jurisdictions.
ETA: And if that's insufficient for you, then I would suggest that there's probably nothing the Police can do that will satisfy your suspicions.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
“No idea where the footage went, Sarge. Musta dropped out of the car during the struggle.”
Yeah, but nah. Unless you're suggesting the "struggle" includes going to the boot, breaking into the secure drive storage bay, removing the drive, and "losing" it.
No tape, not accessible to the officers, and not in a place where one could damage it by accident.