09-02-2020, 10:48 PM
(09-02-2020, 10:14 PM)plam Wrote: I'm not a super big fan of adding to the police budget to get more police officers downtown, but if it had to be police, they should not be in cars. Probably better is something like what I saw in Wellington the other day: there were these people who had vests inscribed "Maori Warden". They are not police officers but their (volunteer) job is to encourage Maori to stay out of trouble. It may work better when there is more of a culture of listening to elders.
Most cops on DTK are walking, or sometimes on bicycles. Much better than intimidating police SUVs.