Let’s not waste words. This is a tribute—to every Samoan police officer who wakes up each day to serve a people who no longer know how to honour their own.
Lately, the online echo chamber of diaspora voices has found a new chew toy: the Samoa Police Service. And their accusations are as bitter as they are baseless—
“If overseas police had taken over, the hit-and-run would’ve been solved.”
Really?
Worldwide, hit-and-run cases are among the hardest crimes to solve. Even with AI, drones, and surveillance grids, the reality is this:
- Los Angeles: Over 50% of fatal hit-and-runs go cold.
- UK: 17,000+ cases in 2023 alone, many still unsolved.
- Australia: Despite license plate recognition tech, conviction rates remain below 60%.
- New Zealand: Still pleading with the public for dashcam footage just to get a lead.
So, no. Even the best-resourced nations can’t solve cases where there is no evidence. And those with the loudest overseas opinions would know this—if they weren’t too busy worshipping foreign badges.
And that’s the punchline, isn’t it?
They bow their heads abroad… and spit at home.
These same critics—now so brave behind keyboards—turn into lambs the moment a foreign cop knocks on their car window.
They say “yes sir,” “no sir,” “please sir” in accents that aren’t theirs.
They accept fines, raids, profiling—even brutality—without protest.
But let one Samoan officer show up on duty without biometric scanners and a CSI toolkit, and suddenly it’s:
“They’re useless. We need foreign help. We can’t trust our own.”
Where’s that rage when Māori and Pasifika are over-policed in New Zealand?
Where’s that fire when US cops kill unarmed Black and Brown youth with impunity?
Nowhere. Because over there, they play by the rules.
Where’s your diaspora voice when shit hits the fan where you stay and pay taxes?
None! Just cowards walking in the tune of the palagi system.
That’s not justice. That’s betrayal.
And what about the Sam case?
Let’s be clear.
The charges against La’auli, Lise, and Fepulea’i for fabricating evidence in the Sam hit-and-run case are proof of political tampering, not police failure.
It was the Samoa Police who stood their ground and pursued the truth—even when political titans tried to bury it.
Those who fed the false narrative to the public? They own this disgrace.
They took a boy’s death and turned it into a weapon of deceit.
Meanwhile, our police—underpaid, under-resourced, and over-criticized—kept working.
But here’s what cuts deepest:
This diaspora-driven distrust is not rooted in fact. It is rooted in a colonized mentality—the one that says:
- White systems = effective.
- Brown systems = broken.
That whisper from a past we still haven’t shaken:
“Samoans aren’t good enough. They need saving.”
Well here’s your wake-up call:
Our police officers are trained. They’re tested. They’re evolving.
They uphold law without fear, even when it means arresting the elite.
They do what many of you online critics never will—serve, protect, and believe in the future of Samoa.
So this is our tribute:
To the Samoa Police Service—
- For holding the line when it’s easier to fold.
- For standing tall while others kneel to foreign authority.
- For chasing truth with less than what others waste on paperclips.
- For being ridiculed by those who ran away, and revered by those who stayed.
You don’t need validation from the West. You need vindication from within.
And this is it.
Let them call for foreign badges. We call for self-respect.
Let them question your competence. We affirm your courage.
Let them post from afar. You patrol our streets. You confront our mess. You guard our peace.
We see you. We stand with you.
And as long as Fealualuai breathes, I’ll speak for you.
Fa’amalosi, leoleo, ‘o outou e malu ai Samoa.
You are the backbone of a nation still learning to stand tall.
And we will not let your name be dragged through the dirt without raising a storm in return.
You are the true heroes of our nation.
Malō le onosai.
