So the traffic cops are extending their 4km-only tolerance limit until the end of the month and are looking at making it permanent. This has a feeling of pre-concieved inevitability about it. Although Acting Superintendent Rob Morgan assures us that the permanent adoption “will really be an evidence-based decision”, we all know that this is complete [...]

Presumably, journalists are starting to run out of new angles on the Tsunami story. Today in the Dom Post there is a breathless story about how John Key’s Motorcade sped past unprotected children playing by the roadside at 3 times the speed limit in Samoa apparently because John Key needed a shower before his flight. [...]

There’s a lively discussion over at Kiwiblog on police ticket quotas. The Herald reports on a leaked email from Waitemata Superintendent John Kelly that sets out ticket targets for his district’s highway patrol officers. Now this is unlikely to come as a surprise to most of us. After all, speed trap vans are often placed at the [...]