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‘Justice, Social Action and Structural Change’
Read moreWe have got to realise that this kind of policing has no boundaries. There are no limitations…Individuals are meant to try and assert themselves in these spaces and that’s an impossible task….
February 2, 201700‘Apex Gang’ and the racial perception of crime
Read moreIn this way ‘Apex Gang’ has been made into a substitute word. ‘Apex Gang’ now allows journalists, commentators, and politicians, to use the term instead of “African”, Ethnic, “Black” or “Immigrant” but still provide the same message. It has…
January 28, 2017Public forum: Calls for Victoria Police to track and prevent racial profiling
Read moreMore than 100 people attended ‘Without Suspicion – Measuring racial profiling in Victoria’ – a November public forum at Melbourne University. At the forum affected communities and expert academics called on Victoria Police to take urgent steps to measure…
January 24, 2017One step back, many steps forward: Vic Police release the Equality is Not the Same 3rd year report
Read moreOn 20 December 2016, Victoria Police reported back on its Equality is Not the Same action plan, which was developed as response to recommendations made to them in 2013 after a public inquiry and by two independent reports,
December 21, 2016- November 30, 2016
Charges in Corinna Horvath case welcomed by legal advocates
Read moreThe Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) announced today that “a Victoria Police Leading Senior Constable with assault offences in relation to an incident in Hastings in March 1996.”
November 29, 2016Public Forum: Without Suspicion Measuring racial profiling in Victoria
Read moreAn expert panel discussion about the experiences and impacts of racial profiling on individuals and communities, trends in racialised policing and options for Victoria to gather and monitor ethnicity data for all police stops statewide. This will be followed…
November 28, 2016IBAC’s missed opportunity
Read moreIBAC’s special report into Operation Ross, released on 10 November, misses a vital opportunity to look beyond Ballarat to the Victorian police complaints system itself.
November 11, 2016- November 9, 2016
Victorian police complaints investigations in the spotlight: IBAC recommendations fail the “Horvath test”
Read moreThe Victorian Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) recently released its review of Victorian police complaints investigation, the Audit of Victoria Police complaints handling systems at regional level (October 2016) The report makes a series of recommendations, for which our...
November 6, 2016Stop, Search and Control: an historical perspective
Read more‘This disproportionate use of police power against people of colour is unjust. Targeting people because of the colour of their skin is unfair. It is ineffective. It is often counterproductive. And it is against the law. Racial profiling and…
October 28, 2016- October 6, 2016
Indigenous experiences of policing: Let’s talk police brutality
Read moreBrisbane Indigenous Media Association worker and Gumbaynggirr man Leon Petrou was tasered, capsicum sprayed and bashed by Queensland police officers, in a case all too common to many Aboriginal people across the country.
September 12, 2016Launch of Police Complaints Clinic Report
Read moreThe Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre has released its first report on the Police Accountability and Human Rights Clinic’s first year of operations.
September 7, 2016Using your phone as an accountability tool
Read moreThe protests in the United States against the killing of black men by police have highlighted the role social media video apps in recording the incidents….
July 11, 2016What’s next for Victoria Police’s efforts to end racial profiling?
Read moreFourteen Victorian community associations, agencies and peaks have written to the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police Graham Ashton calling for the statewide rollout of stop and search receipting, introduction of police stop data collection and monitoring and anti-bias training…
June 16, 2016Operation Ross: Ballarat public hearings into police misconduct
Read moreIndependent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC) will begin its controversial public examinations into a long legacy of allegations of serious police misconduct by police at Victoria’s Ballarat Station today
We will have observers at these public hearings, titled Operation Ross,…
May 23, 2016- March 15, 2016
Sister seeks re-opening of Graeme Jensen Inquest
Read moreGraeme Jensen’s sister Fay Spear has filed an application with the Coroner’s Court to re-open the Inquest into the police shooting of her brother on 11 October 1988
December 16, 2015The independent investigation of complaints against police
Read moreThe Victorian Government must, as a matter of urgency, establish a body separate from police to independently investigate all complaints made against Police.
November 16, 2015