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Speaker 1: Well, I'm very much on the side of the cops

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Speaker 1: over whether they should be pinging people for smoking in

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Speaker 1: cars with kids. I mean, you'll have caught up on

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Speaker 1: this by now, but it's been around most of the day.

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Speaker 1: We've found out that police have not been enforcing the law,

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Speaker 1: even the law, even though the law has been passed

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Speaker 1: for the last three years, and they haven't issued a

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Speaker 1: single fine, and it's deliberate. They're deliberately not doing it.

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Speaker 1: And the police union says that the reason that they're

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Speaker 1: doing this is because, frankly, cops are busy, and this

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Speaker 1: is not a cop problem, this is actually a health problem.

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Speaker 1: And I couldn't agree more with him. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think we know police can only do so much, so

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Speaker 1: let's prioritize it. I would personally prefer that the limited

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Speaker 1: number of officers that we've got out there are preventing crimes,

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Speaker 1: are catching bad guys, are putting bad guys before the

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Speaker 1: courts and hopefully in jail, are getting stolen stuff back

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Speaker 1: for us, are putting pressure on gangs, are keeping our

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Speaker 1: roads safe, doing things like and we've discussed this this week,

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Speaker 1: doing things like booze buses and drug tests. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I could go on and on with my priorities for

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Speaker 1: what I want the police to do, and I would

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Speaker 1: go on a very long time before my list ever

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Speaker 1: hit stopping stupid parents smoking in cars with the kids inside,

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Speaker 1: Because how is that a police job? How is that

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Speaker 1: more important than chasing the bad guys and putting pressure

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Speaker 1: on gangs. Frankly, the way that I see it is,

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Speaker 1: if parents are that dumb that they're hot boxing a

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Speaker 1: car with tobacco while their kids are inside, then they're

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Speaker 1: not just doing that in the car, They're doing that

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Speaker 1: at home as well, And so having the cops come

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Speaker 1: around and give them a crack for doing it in

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Speaker 1: the car might might make the rest of us feel

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Speaker 1: good about it as we're sitting there being judgmental, and

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Speaker 1: it would it would make me find feel fantastic to

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Speaker 1: see somebody that don get pained for it. But it's

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Speaker 1: not going to save the kids because it's still going

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Speaker 1: to be going on at home. So it's an utterly

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Speaker 1: pointless exercise. It was always a dumb law, wasn't it,

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Speaker 1: Because it was always going to takeup a huge amount

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Speaker 1: of resource when you think about it. Cops driving down

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Speaker 1: the road on his way to I don't know, do

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Speaker 1: some actual cop work. Pass goes a car full of

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Speaker 1: kids and the mum is smoking, and now what has

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Speaker 1: he got to do. He's got to chase the car

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Speaker 1: down and then deal with it and hear the excuses

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Speaker 1: and issue the fine. And that's how long is that

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Speaker 1: going to take? What a waste of time, time that

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Speaker 1: could have been spent preventing a crime from happening. And actually,

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Speaker 1: while we're on the subject, I think Mark Mitchell I

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Speaker 1: hardly ever think he does something wrong, but I actually

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Speaker 1: think he's done the wrong thing in here stepping in

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Speaker 1: and forcing the cops to start enforcing this. He knows

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Speaker 1: that the cops are already stretched. Here is a cop himself.

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Speaker 1: He has just made that worse. For more from Heather

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