"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity"
-- W.B. Yeats

Sounds that way.

Also makes me wonder about the trajectory of setting (possibly impractically high?) performance targets versus the gaming of the system to meet those targets.

Over time, each could push the other one higher.

Or anything that invalidated their choice of KPIs, no.

(Honestly, this feels like something you'd teach in a first year university lecture if you wanted to illustrate the topic of misaligned incentives, and the dangers of using weakly indicative metrics as key performance indicators. Before launching into a rant about BMI, of course.)

Or any officers standing at traffic stops, pushing the button while they're waiting for cars to come along.

So is this a _good_ performance metric to attach questions of pay / funding to?

Probably not. But it sure is measurable.

Worth further noting that their reasons for recording and auditing the data are because they're using it as a fundable performance metric:

"...potential long-term implications for performance reporting and funding for police"

That's on my last-to-do list for leaving the office today, too.

Another data point:
www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/27/a...

That said, it's also in line with ultra-conservative rhetoric around purity / contamination / degeneracy, which might speak to whose songbook they're reading from these days.

It's interesting that National have been leaning hard on things they don't like being "disgusting" recently. I'm wondering if they're working from PR firm advice.

This was the fabled "burger bunker" that we only ever went to when my parents were having clutch problems with their cars.

(They drove Hillman Hunters though, so we went a few times.)