Bureaucratic Corruption destroying the country & promoting Crime!

Kia Ora,

New Zealand likes to see itself as not corrupt, but it depends on your view.

In this country it is common for large businesses & in particular government departments to deal with situations by finding any excuse at all to do nothing.

Not as upfront as the so called corruption of the middle east where palms are often greased to get things done. But in reality that is just a way of doing business that has worked successfully for several thousand years.

The last few days has probably shown how bureaucartic corruption contributes to crime in the best way possible.

In recent months locally there have been a series of potholes appear in the well used local road. The solution has been to send work crews to continually fill in holes as they appear, even though anyone with an ounce of common sense can see the whole road needs to be resealed(despite it obviously done at lowest tender the year before).

The workers have even engaged in an hour long debate on the phone trying to convince someone higher up the chain that they are wasting money & time.

But the last couple of days have beat even that.

After three days of frost & not even bad frosts or from what could be seen black ice, suddenly trucks appeared midday yesterday & started laying grit on the corners & leading up to the corners.

This was despite the forecasts had been frost each of the last three days but none today. Yes the forecasts are not that accurate, but have been pretty on the mark this week.

First thing that happened within 15 minutes of the first grit being laid was cars were trying to carryout doghnuts on the loose material. Right then you knew it was going to be a busy night for Christchurch's boyracers.

So it proved with them adopting a new version of their new tactics. Recently instead of large groupings known as diesels vehicles have travelled in two's & three's but last night it was groups of up to 7 vehicles with the first one carrying out doghnuts/burnouts as the rest slowed before moving off to next position on their circuit.

But just to prove that the bureaucrats have no idea what they are doing most of today involved a street sweeeping truck getting rid of the grit, even though forecasts are for initially frost tomorrow, that now having changed to Monday morning.

The Corruption occurs where there is now insistance even by police communications for absolute proof of something happening or about to happen. By been totally reactive as opposed to proactive they allow crime even at the low levels to grow. All criminals start somewhere & it is not uncommon to see the group tagging one minute breaking into cars or even bashing people the next.

Of course the NZ Security Industry contributes to this by constantly telling people to ignore crime or suspicious activity. Often because the people in the supervisory roles have no idea what security really is.

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