Posts tagged with ‘racialised’

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...

Victoria Police are planning to bring back some sort of ‘Police in Schools’ program.  We don’t know the details…

The first research paper using data from the national COVIDPolicing.org.au monitoring project has now published.

The authors, Louise Boon-Kuo…

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 Police Accountability Project, run by the Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre is united in its support for Aboriginal…

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. …

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

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

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

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…

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