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David Bain and the justice system, faith in the justice system?

Selected individual comments from the general public.

• Yes, the police were incompetent, and still are.
• First, police mismanagement of evidence and habit of running mindlessly for a simple solution needs a remedy.
• It seems that protecting the good name of the Police is more important than justice.
• All this proves is that the police did not do their job properly.
• But the police have continued to try to justify their actions rather than face up to the fact that they have put an innocent man in jail for all these years. Shame on the police for their dogged stupidity and being so self centred and small minded that they were unable to look at the evidence with open minds.
• I have no faith at all in the justice system, the police etc need to be very careful who they arrest, they appear to frame people just to make their job easier and done with.
• In all cases the rule should be that if the evidence is faked or planted or omitted the prosecutor and the arresting officer are put in jail for the equivalent time when the miscarriage of justice is discovered. This would protect the public from cops that are too eager to get promotions etc.
• Do I trust the police to search for the truth- no. Do I believe that the police department en masse will fit the evidence to suit them - absolutely.
• Let's hope he also gets the payout he deserves too, which for at least a decade in prison should be a substantial amount I would think. Perhaps this payment should come out of the Police budget and then they would be a little slower to finger innocent people in murder cases in the future.
• It was entirely predictable that the police would support their own in the subsequent investigation of how the police conducted their inquiry. There is a culture in the police that needs changing.
• The police have been shown up once again as having shown little integrity in their investigation of Mr Bain, and until they adequately investigate evidence and alibis and do not allow tampering with evidence, dishonest distortions of witness statements, and shonky "expert" testimony their motto without "fear or favour" seems decidedly hypocritical.The police have been overly sensitive lately about public vilification, but until the police and the Crown act with more integrity and moral ethics they will continue to destroy the lives of innocent people. Sadly cases like Mr Bain's highlight the bad policing and prosecuting hurting their colleagues in the process.
• This is fantastic news for a case that has been poorly investigated by Police.
• I never thought I would see gross injustices in NZ, but I am horrified at the justice system and have no faith in it at all. The police tend to be over-zealous in making allegations and this has spilled over into the courts.
• There needs to be some serious investigations into how the NZ police force investigate crimes, because I see little reason to have any faith in the nz police force.
• The worrying feature is the police pick their man and go for it regardless. The lack of evidence is clouded with innuendo, character assassination, and of course the secret witness.

Policewatch says Ms. King and the Management will have to do a lot more than mere lipservice to restore the faith of the public!!!!