{"id":5736,"date":"2015-06-17T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2015-06-18T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T20:00:26","slug":"maori-drivers-evading-fines-is-not-racial-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=5736","title":{"rendered":"Maori drivers evading fines is not racial privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"avatr\"<\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I was critical of the New Zealand Police in how they arrested Diego Chavez. Today the Police deserve praise for the initiative to avoid instantly charging\u00a0Maori drivers that have fines for no licence in South Auckland and it\u2019s working.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately this has become a prejudice debate of those with a low tolerance of Maori\u00a0being mischievous on social networking and talkback.\u00a0 Mike Hosking started his usual redneck rant on air this morning.\u00a0<\/span>“This business with Mowry’s dodging fines”.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This has nothing to do with racial privilege the system in South Auckland \u00a0is not working . Learner drivers of Maori and Pasifika descent are failing en masse at the Manukau driver testing station. The objective of Driver licencing is to ensure drivers safety on our roads and the testing station in Manukau is focused on profit margins.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Manukau testing station is failing drivers on the smallest infringement for example the driver didn’t arrive at the test with fully licenced driver or they didn’t have their L plates on the vehicle. The testing officers are arrogantly cancelling the test before the learner driver has started the engine. These are petty\u00a0failures unrelated to safety.\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s widely believed in South Auckland these unreasonable failures constitutes institutionalised racism and the system is designed to fail drivers.<\/p>\n

Each time the driver fails the test they are charged hefty amounts to sit the test again. \u00a0After failing several times and a futile system designed to financially punish\u00a0learner drivers most\u00a0just give up and would prefer to take the risk. Police have realised a pattern here and have acted accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I sat my licence I was told\u00a0quickly there was a degree of discrimination at Manukau testing station\u00a0so\u00a0I went out of district to Mt Wellington to pass the test. This is not a figment of my imagination when every Maori and Pasifka Islander in South Auckland tells you\u00a0there is a problem at Manukau testing station.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder Yesterday I was critical of the New Zealand Police in how they arrested Diego Chavez. Today the Police deserve praise for the initiative to avoid instantly charging\u00a0Maori drivers that have fines for no licence in South Auckland and it\u2019s working. Unfortunately this has become a prejudice debate of those with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5736"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5802,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions\/5802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}