Posts tagged with ‘Ethnicity’

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…

As Victoria escalates its crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Victoria Police must ensure its police responses are aligned…

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

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…

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…

NEW DATE! The Police Accountability Project is presenting a unique full day professional development training for law practitioners,…

The ‘Make Victoria Safe Again’ protest event on Sunday 17th September 2017 provides the latest example of how law…