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A setback on drink driving
News, Editorial, Published on 30/05/2017
» The next time the police and government begin a campaign to crack down on drink driving, the country has the right to remain sceptical. This is because authorities have clearly showed they have no intention of enforcing this law. Last week, faced with a great opportunity to show they brook no exceptions to enforcing the drink-driving law, police and prosecutors punted. Once again, a real-world case intruded upon the government's claim that everyone must be treated equally before the law.
A crash course in systematic injustice
News, Editorial, Published on 20/03/2016
» Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An expensive car crashes. One or more people die. A person with a recognisable name, either through their own fame or the position of their parents, emerges from the wreckage or flees the scene. No breath test is administered. Compensation is offered and the family tries to wriggle their way out of any legal consequences. The police fail dismally at their job.
Police prove the law does not apply to all
News, Editorial, Published on 19/07/2015
» What should have been a routine procedure has become another damning indictment of the country’s notorious police force. When Bangkok’s police chief drove through not one but two drink-driving checkpoints manned by volunteers, the outcome was anything but by the book. Instead, it was yet another example of inequality and injustice in law enforcement, and how those who think they are entitled to preferential treatment can get away with it by asking: “Don’t you know who I am?”