Despite claims NZ's policing is too 'woke', crime rates are largely static — and even declining
- Written by Ananish Chaudhuri, Professor of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, University of Auckland
Shutterstock/Kenneth William CalenoWhen National MP Simon Bridges called Police Commissioner Andrew Coster a “wokester” recently, his intention was apparently to suggest the police are too soft on crime.
Debating the concept of “policing by consent” during a recent select committee hearing, Bridges asked Coster: “Do...
