Posts tagged with ‘youth’

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

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…

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…

Australia’s first police complaints chatbot has been launched by Josef Legal, Robinson Gill and ourselves to help people…

A team of young advocates against racial profiling by Victoria Police is a finalist in the 2019 Racism: It…

The Police Accountability Project calls for the release of Operation Turon findings that expose potential leadership failures within Victoria…

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…

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…

Dear Commissioner Ashton,
We urge you to ensure that the proposed trial and roll-out of BWCs is accompanied by…

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…