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Deliberately changed results to incriminate drivers.
Was it a matter of "Māori drink drive, everyone knows it" ?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578191/criminal-investigation-called-for-after-police-falsify-alcohol-breath-tests
anarchoFeline
sounds like cop shit
SpeedbumpNZ
The answer is the obvious one.
Unclescam
All cops isn't just an American thing...
Craizie
Cops knowingly doing shit like this should be executed. Or at LEAST have their citizenship revoked and exiled to hell.
GreenMnM
"None of the staff had been stood down"
Sounds about right.
delemental
Wild, all the cops I saw at DUI checkpoints during Easter holiday didn't pull out one Maori, but limited experience and all that. Granted, south island, so a bit different I suppose.
CedricDur
I can imagine them trying to do that with me. I don't drink, period, near 50 years old and the most I've had was half a beer, once, in my entire life, which I found vile and didn't even finish.
Suddenly cop: you're drunk, pay a fine.
RetrogradeLlama
In the ol' days they used machines that had a needle on them. A guy I know was pulled over in his hometown by the local PD. They didn't like him much. He hadn't been drinking. He blew into the unit and the needle showed he was not drunk. Cop stuck his finger on the machine, pushed the needle into "way drunk" territory, and said "You're driving while intoxicated. You're under arrest.".
SPE825x
All Cops you say?
FlatPlutoSociety
Meanwhile, here in Philadelphia, the former DA's office had a long list of cops who had lied under oath, planted evidence, illegally arrested people, etc so many times that they weren't allowed to testify in court because their testimony was considered a liability to the case. None of those cops ever suffered any professional consequences other than not being called to testify in court anymore.
beerkrump
ACAB
charondaboatman
Never thought New Zealand would pull such a dick move. Damn. I guess it’s true, then.
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
NZ police have been corrupt for many years. I've seen it first hand. No one joins to protect and serve, they join because they love power over people. The police are the biggest gang in NZ.
BoblovesMac31415101
You sound like a Sith.
Grimlinnan
For the last 50 years the cops have in the USA doing that as standard operating procedure that's why they have qualified immunity to so the city and department can't be sued by there victims. The departments don't give a damn what crimes the officers commit.
Kablooeeey
There are plenty of "good guys" working for the Nazis and helping them transport and murder people. They loved their kids and spouse. Did nice thing in the community. Were friendly neighbors....but they still fucking murdered millions of people. How the fuck is that even possible? It's because they were trained to look at "people" (Not other cops) as detrimental to society as a whole. They murdered people to keep people "safe". Same shit different century.
carbonr1
Awww Nooo ! Not Un Zud ! I thought we could trust you guys.
baals
Local DAs put pressure on the local PD to bring them bodies to stuff into for profit prsons so the they can get their kick backs from core civic.
psmith00
Police? falsifying Breathalyzer tests? just to boost their arrest numbers?
say it isn't so!!!
/s
EstoyPoopis
Targeting the natives. Racists scumbags everywhere.
ACAB
GlenL
Even worse, this will result in actual drunk drivers getting off too because every test administered by that department is now suspect
ImSynnical
True but it is more important the innocent are also vindicated a dui charge can destroy your entire life, those sick pos cops should get life behind bars for destroying that many people’s futures
METROlD
When I got a DUI the cop gave me a breathalyzer and it registered .08. But I only had 2 beers. I insisted that they give me a test at the police station. That one read .03. In California the limit is .08. I should have been free to go. The cop STILL put me in the drunk tank. Towed my car. Wrote me up for a fat ass DUI. I had to go to jail for 2 full days. I almost lost my job. My license was suspended, And when I finally got a lawyer, it was immediately thrown out of court - totally erased. WTF.
ImSynnical
Malicious attempts to destroy one’s life should be grounds for immediate dismissal
VermillionTwilight
Don’t trust anything from RNZ. It’s basically the closest we have to fox news.
Absolutely nothing in the article has anything to do with cops doing bad, but is intentional phrased to blame the police for what seems like faulty testing equipment.
BoblovesMac31415101
What?
You high bro? Or are you an antivax 🌰?
HandoB4Javert
AI FTW in this case
BoblovesMac31415101
? You mean they used AI to prove a crime was occurring?
HandoB4Javert
Sifting through the data and finding the evidence of the crimes.
Randomice
I think you know by what criteria they selected the people they targeted.
ThinkThisOut
I’ve never been to New Zealand, met a NZer, or really even seen it portrayed so I couldn’t begin to guess the target. Can you please share for the enlightenment of us all?
Starcatcher1986
Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand.
ThinkThisOut
Well that is a new word/noun for this guy. Thanks!
flipj
"if you're white, you're all right" would be my guess.
Psionickitten
Not too familiar with New Zealand racism. Is this applicable there?
flipj
The local population has been discriminated against quite heavily, colonialism was no joke there.
Psionickitten
Fuck. Humans suck.
BoblovesMac31415101
We have 52.6 % of the prison population and only 17.8% of the general population.
I'm New Zealand Māori but as a little kid I looked Pākāha, we jumped the fence into the Coke factory to joy ride on the forklift trucks ( dickheads) jumped back out and into the arms of two Pākāha cops 1972, they slapped the shit out of my darker cousins and arrested them and slapped me and our Pākāha buddy telling us " we catch you hanging around with fucking Māori again and you're for it" let us go.
Kablooeeey
ACAB. Everywhere. Same shit. They exist to protect the wealthy and property belonging to the wealthy. Everyone else is just here for them to fuck with and keep the courts filled with "criminals". Never call the cops. They always make the situation worse and they frequently "solve" small problems, by murdering someone. Fuck all of them, anywhere and everywhere.
bonodono1350
RetrogradeLlama
A friend of mine became a cop. First month on the job... one of the old guys tell him "After a year on the job, there are only two kinds of people: other cops, and assholes".
BoblovesMac31415101
Na, it only takes a significant percentage of them to be cunts and it feels like it's them all.
I've met a lot of good ones.
omgzwtfs
Agreed there are plenty of cops who do their jobs. The question is how many know or hear things and do nothing (go to media, quit, etc) - that makes them complicit. Living in a city known for corrupt police I think it's fair to say they're all bastards here
TheMilliner
The problem there is that cops are allowed to investigate themselves, rather than by independent third-parties. Internal Affairs is just another branch of the police, so it’s just cops investigating cops, which is why even when good cops DO say something, nothing ever happens. It’s a huge problem here in Australia, academic papers about it and everything.
If cops were actually investigated by people outside the police who had power to ignore union protections, there’s be a lot fewer bad apples.
onlymostofthetime
yup. I've had some issues recently regarding a construction company leaving equipment on my property while they work on my neighbor's house. I have explained to both the contractors and police that the construction workers have been trespassing on my land. After I called the cops, the responding officer shrugged and said, they are working, what do you expect?
EvilEmperorXurg
Hey, abandoned tools are free.
onlymostofthetime
VodkaReindeer
"From the audit which covered over 4.6 million breath tests performed between 1 July 2024 and 17 August 2025, the initial analysis suggested there were tests conducted that were simulated without the involvement of a driver.
The audit indicated that some staff had recorded breath screening tests that hadn't occurred.
BoblovesMac31415101
So it could be instances where they recognized a friend and conducted the test without allowing their friends breath to be tested?
VodkaReindeer
120 cops and 30k tests, so I don't think that's it.
BoblovesMac31415101
What do you put it down to?
Might not all be the same shenanigans.
VodkaReindeer
Maybe they were pretending to be working and watched youtube instead.