Posts tagged with ‘discrimination’

In April 2016 Tommy Lovett was set upon by plainclothes detectives from Darebin Police. He was seriously assaulted, capsicum…

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. …

A parliamentary committee has recommended that all serious police misconduct be investigated by a new independent Police Misconduct and…

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.

The Parliamentary Inquiry examining how police complaints about misconduct and corruption are handled in Victoria was due to report…

Evidence from the behaviour of ‘High Reliability Organisations’ shows a clear path forward to improve, not just the perception…

Commentators such as Jon Faine on ABC Melbourne have pointed out that previous attempts taken in Victoria to independently…

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

An avalanche of news stories from people who have experienced excessive force, racist policing or other police misconduct, and…

The current Inquiry into External Oversight of Police Corruption and Misconduct in Victoria has established beyond doubt the urgent…

The Police Accountability Project, welcomes the announcement of Operation Turon by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC).

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

The Police Accountability Project has called the State Opposition Police in Schools Program (PIS)a ‘terribly flawed and outmoded’…

Media coverage of crime involving African young people is in hyper-drive in Victoria at the moment. If you…

More reflective, better researched and ethical public commentary around these issues will go some way towards reducing the racial…

Liberal MP Jason Wood, the Federal member for Latrobe, is trying to trick us. His release of certain statistics…

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…