Racism / Anti-racism
systematic racism by police in New-Zealand
In a various society is everyone different and to take care of all those people is there the Public Prosecution Service to rule the country. The police works for the Public Prosecution Service and maintains the criminal act of people where appropriate. Unfortunately is there a lot of racism in multicultural societies. There are many forms of racism, one of them is systematic racism. Systematic racism can take place in different cases. It is when you can discriminate people with a written law. For example discrimination when buying a house or education, jobs and systematic racism by the police. The last one applies in New-Zealand with the people of Māori.
The Māori people are since the late 1300 centuries in New Zealand with the arrival of Polynesian settles and they have their own culture, language and traditions. The Māori’s were active is a time period from the year 1500 to 1642. After that time period the Europeans came to New Zealand under Abel Tasman his leadership. They brought the Māori western food, technology and weapons, but the European culture was adjusted to the Māori clan.
The Europeans learned the British culture to the Māori people and that changed their own culture. For example, in the United Kingdom they had the royal family to control the country and in New Zealand they did not know what a queen was. So then the Māori people adapted to the Europeans and had chiefs from that moment.
Around the year 1860 the Māori people had conflicts with the Europeans because of large-scale land confiscated, but also the Māori’s had social upheavals and epidemics. This caused the Māori people to decline. Fortunately for them their was a change to recover in the 20s century. Since then are the Māori people back in New-Zealand.
The current situation in New Zealand is that de Māori people do not trust the police because they think that the police handles different with the Māori people then with the ‘normal’ inhabitants of New Zealand. Since 2005 is there a Māori party who is about to have an influence in the gouvernement. The leaders of the party: Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi talked about the issues that the Māori people had with the police to do something about it.
Police don’t have unconscious racial bias – the bias is more overt and systemic racism permeates the whole criminal justice system, the Māori Party says. So is 55% of the males is prison Māori and by the females in prison is 65% Māori. Waititi says that the police are handling stricter by someone from the Māori clan then someone who is not.
According to the Māori party is systematic racism something you need to deal with, but if you want to stop it then you need somethings more. The police gets $562 billion each year and the leaders from the Māori party says that is not enough to help the racism problems. Police Association president Chris Cahill says many social factors, not just policing, are involved in Māori over-representation in arrest or imprisonment rates. He says that the Māori party could not blame the police for the failures in the society and that the problem can’t be solved by the police only. Cahill said police were already working on researching and addressing factors that might lead to such bias.
The fact that the Māori people get stopped by the police more then others is racism but the fact that Māori people have to deal with a stricter criminal justice is systematic racism.
Unfortunately is the justice system not the only thing that is unequal in New Zealand. The education system had also unequal habits against the Māori people. There is a little room for the culture, language and identity of the Māori people in the system but most people ignore them.
Instead of giving the Māori people room for their own culture they ignore the habits in the Māori culture causing that the population disappears more and more in the education system of New Zealand. While the criminal justice makes more room for Māori people in jail.
Luckily is the gouvernement about to make a plan against systematic racism to the Māori peoples.
In that plan all the governments are going to communicate people with one another so everyone gets a voice in a system for human rights.
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