Larry Williams Drive

Chris Hipkins deserves a lot of praise for backing the cops in this debate about whether they’re allowed to take photos of kids . This is not a natural position for a Labour MP to take. On one side you’ve got the police who’ve been taking thousands of photos of kids who haven’t yet committed a crime. And on the other side you’ve got the Office of Privacy Commissioner and the IPCA both of whom have slammed the police for doing this unlawfully, and you’ve got the media writing headlines about the fact that around half those kids were Maori, seemingly implying racism among the cops. I feel like it’s more natural for a Labour MP to come down on the side against the police, especially given his party has committed to doing "reducing the prison population" through "progressive policing". This is the opposite of progressive policing; this is just straight, old fashioned policing.  If Chris Hipkins is true to his word, the criticism he's copping isn’t over yet. He’s not ruling out passing a law to make it legal for t