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Hehir fisks the anti shoplifting hysteria

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Liam Hehir notes: The real issue is the unnecessary complexity and arbitrariness of the current law. That isn’t being addressed. Instead we are getting a deluge of hand-wringing about “vigilantism” and doomsday hypotheticals about how shopping in New Zealand is going to become like an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter. The premise of the government’s reform is simple: New Zealand’s current citizen’s arrest laws are inconsistent and random. Right…
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Hehir fisks the anti shoplifting hysteria

Liam Hehir notes: The real issue is the unnecessary complexity and arbitrariness of the current law. That isn’t being addressed. Instead we are getting a deluge of hand-wringing about “vigilantism” and doomsday hypotheticals about how shopping in New Zealand is going to become like an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter. The premise of the government’s reform is simple: New Zealand’s current citizen’s arrest laws are inconsistent and random. Right…

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