Racial Profiling

        The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS), the Police Accountability Project and other community legal centres...

PAP has recently released two important reports around policing in the past months. PAP is proud to release these...

IBAC has recently handed down its report into racist, sexist and homophobic comments by the former head of Victoria...

The Police Accountability Project (PAP) condemns the use of new weaponry and the rising militarisation of Victoria Police. We express concern about the oppressive policing of demonstrations generally.  On Saturday 21st...

Leanne Weber  Risk factors, risk assessment and risk-based predictions dominate public discussion these days across a range of policy areas from the economy to...

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…