Racial Profiling

These new Stage 4 restrictions in Victoria are important to slow the spread of COVID 19 and we recommend…

Legal and human rights groups condemn the heavy-handed, policing response to a public health emergency, rather than the much-needed…

The Police Accountability Project is calling for the immediate withdrawal of police from the public housing estates experiencing the…

Risk-based tactics like pre-emptive breaking up of groups, close monitoring of known offenders, and unjustified police stops all translated…

The stories coming through the covidpolicing website only give us snapshots of what is going on, but these sometimes…

New technologies such as facial recognition, video surveillance systems, body worn cameras, automatic number plate recognition and social media…

A team of young advocates against racial profiling by Victoria Police is a finalist in the 2019 Racism: It…

Are you 18 years or over? Have you been stopped by the police in Victoria in a vehicle…

Racial profiling by Victoria Police and the harmful impacts of media distortion, stereotyping and racism have been exposed…

A solution that’s often proposed to deal with problems of racial profiling is to increase police ­force diversity. …

Anti-association laws like this criminalise entire communities and entire generations. They send the visceral and racist message that these…

Police have launched new Contact Cards but these will not reduce or prevent racial profiling.

Ultimately, building closer relationships between young people and police often results in the intensification of policing of those young…

The Haile-Michael case, in which the men alleged police had engaged in racial profiling, was settled by agreement on…

In the lead up to our Police Accountability Practice Forum we thought it would be useful to public extracts…

A coalition of 56 Australian non-government organisations have called upon all Australian state and federal governments to adopt measures…

I became involved in the Peer Advocacy team because I wanted to end racial profiling and be the voice…

Victoria Police must take urgent steps to monitor racial profiling by members in police stops, say experts in a…

Monitoring Racial Profiling – Introducing a scheme to prevent unlawful stops and searches by Victoria Police
A report of the…

This exciting event features Police Accountability Project founder, and now PHD Candidate, Tamar Hopkins, along with former Police Accountability…