Unleashed - locations of the Snells Beach racket

Here are the locations mentioned in Unleashed relating to the Snells Beach racket.

This map shows the locations of incidents and the proximity of clusters of people involved. It shows where officials lived in proximity to those who lobbied them. It also demonstrates how, during the Covid-19 lockdowns, clusters of neighbours schemed.

Zoom in and move around the map by clicking and dragging. Click on a symbol on the map for more information.

What happened to the original map

  The interactive map that originally accompanied this article was a Google My Maps embed published on 16 June 2024, the day this article first went up. It plotted the same 30 addresses now shown above, in the same colour-coded categories, with the same accompanying notes. It sat in this article for four months.

Here it is:

  Between mid-October and early November 2024, Google removed it. The article around it stayed live. The map did not.

  My website analytics show what happened in the days before the takedown.

  The article had been catching on through August and September 2024, peaking with 2456 visits in September as readers followed the trail from the 1News story on the closure of the Mahurangi Police Station and the viral Facebook share of Warkworth’s celebrity crooked cop culture. The article was being read, the map was being studied, and people were sharing both.

  On 3 and 4 October 2024, four different IP addresses inside an Auckland Council corporate-network block in the CBD read this article in a coordinated burst, alongside Auckland Council: too big to care, too complex to control, The corrupt dog ranger, and Small minds in small communities: five different staff sessions in 24 hours, all from the same Auckland Council egress proxy, all reading the same constellation of council-critical articles. The map article was hit twice during that burst.

  On 15 October 2024, a Council IP at the Warkworth Service Centre on Baxter Street visited this article three times in a single day, including once via a Facebook share — the behaviour of someone studying the map closely and circulating it internally. That was the last meaningfully engaged visit before the takedown. After 15 October 2024, traffic to this article collapses. The week of 21 October records zero visits. November 2024 records zero visits. December 2024 records four. The audience had not lost interest. The map had stopped being shareable, because there was no longer a map to share.

  On the available evidence, somebody at Auckland Council — in the days after their own staff and their own Warkworth Service Centre had been studying this article and the map embedded in it — reported the map to Google. Google removed it.

  I have rebuilt it. The map above is mine, on my own infrastructure, drawing on free aerial imagery and public address data. It is no longer dependent on Google. It cannot be removed from my server by a one-click “Report” button to a third party. Anyone who wants the map gone now has to ask me directly, and explain why — in writing — each pin is wrong.

  The fuller account of what Auckland Council and the New Zealand Police were doing while my reporting was being investigated is in Stupid is as stupid does: how the Police buried a complaint implicating themselves.