(Open Letter to the Minister of Police)

Dear Judith Collins,

1. What training programs are in place to prevent the New Zealand Police discriminating against men?

2. What New Zealand Police policies address the issue of Police bias against men?

I draw to your attention the following advertisement that appeared in 2003, in the Hutt News. The only feedback I have received since posting that on the Web has been an email – purportedly from the Police – asking me to take it down, since it was making their job more difficult! The Police seem to think that the priority is for them to be able to do their work – even if their work is systematically anti-male!

As you can see, it includes anti-male political propaganda and stereotypes, such as:

• Many men use children to regain control over the relationship when it ends;

• Family violence often stems from a belief that women and children are the property of men;

• Boys model their behaviour on that of their violent fathers;

• It is often what is happening to the children that motivates a women (sic) to seek help;

• Girls can be withdrawn and fearful.

Virtually the whole Fathers' Movement has been about women using children against their fathers -- and here we have the Feminazi Police, using taxpayer money, spreading man-hating stereotypes ! Women have much more control over their children than men do -- especially when the parents are separated.

Notice the sentence in the advertisement which states:

“It is not necessarily physical violence but can be controlling isolating behaviour of one person over another person.”

Even if you don't know about the research showing that women hit men just as often as men hit women (see http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm), you will, I hope, agree that women are at least as capable of "controlling isolating behaviour" as men are !

This advertisement just talks of men as perpetrators and just talks of females as victims. What chance has a man got of getting this sort of scum-police to deal with his violent partner ? What credibility have police statistics on Domestic Violence arrests got, when they are obviously only looking to arrest men ?

I myself have been the victim of this sort of police attitude, so I assume that it is endemic in the New Zealand Police.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Zohrab

.dankl

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