PETER SAID: Please don't tell me that Ganjans (police) aren't racist! I see
the results of their activities every week lined up outside the
local court.They are, and always have been, the instrument whereby
authority in Australia demonstrates its covert policy of racism
toward Blacks.
It's not the police who are racists, it's humans!! And those 'humans' who
wear the uniform and treat people with disrespect and hate are soon turfed
out. They do not deserve to be called humans.
I think we also have to remember that there are two sides to every story and
none of us can ever be there all the time when the 'alleged' incidents of
abuse occur between police and 'person'. And unfortunately, there is usually
a guilty party who tries to lie their way out of it if backed into a corner
or the other side also makes up stories to make the other side look bad.
Yes, people on either side - whether victim or offender - can lie through
their teeths to protect themselves and to hurt the other.
It's hard not to make judgment on a situation we were never present at and
we always want to believe in those we take the side of. But unfortunately
unless we saw what happened, none of us wil ever know the truth to every
'alleged' situation.
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Subject: RE: [recoznet2] Claims racism is behind indigenous jailing
NSW Police Academy is currently having problems retaining
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Police recruits. The problem
is an increase in racism at the academy. There has always been a core
of racism at the Academy and non-Aboriginal students pick up on their
instructors prejudices and give the Black recruits a hard time.
However, the racism and racist remarks and 'special treatment' have
increased since the Olympics, Kathy Freeman being chosen to light the
flame and when "the Boong" won the 400m.
Things are not good for Aboriginal recruits at the NSW Police
Academy.
Yesterday morning I was welcomed to my office by a 30 year old
Aboriginal man who had spent the night in the local lock up. He came
to us because he needed help following his being charged with
resisting arrest and assaulting police. As he arrived I noticed a an
unmarked police car following him up the street.
This man has never had any trouble with the law, but was walking home
in the main street of Albury when police spotted him acting
suspiciously (read here looking too black) they stopped and demanded
to search him and his bag resulting in 5 police officers bundling him
into a paddy waggon. He was not sprayed with capsicum, which is the
normal procedure if a violent person is encountered. He received
stitches to his face following being punched in the face by a police
officer while being held by the other 4. This young feller is no Tony
Mundine, in fact he is a bit of a jelly fish. Pretty brave these
guys.
Albury Aboriginal community has major problems with police and is
sick of having their young men treated as punching bags for over
weight cops. Young men are continually detained and bashed ,
resulting in broken bones and other injuries. Injured people are
being held in cells without medical attention. A local Magistrate
ordered that a punch drunk Aboriginal man paraded into court by
police be taken by ambulance to hospital. One young man was told his
body would be found in the boot of a car. Aboriginal people are being
charged with consorting with known criminals for visiting their own
relatives!
Aboriginal children have been picked up by police and taken 15 ks
away to Howlong and kicked out to find their way back home in the
middle of the night.
The same cop's names keep cropping up in these matters time and time
again and the police Integrity Division and the Ombudsman do
nothing.
I predict that you will read of a death in custody in Albury in the
near future.
Please don't tell me that Ganjans (police) aren't racist! I see
the results of their activities every week lined up outside the
local court.They are, and always have been, the instrument whereby
authority in Australia demonstrates its covert policy of racism
toward Blacks.
Oh, by the way, my authority for speaking about police recruitment
and the academy at Goulbourn? I am the academic support person for
Aboriginal recruits at the Academy. I also support Indigenous police
officers studying the undergraduate courses in policing with Charles
Sturt University, which is the institution providing academic
qualifications in Policing to the NSW Police SERVICE (not Force) .
> From: "Crook, Karen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [recoznet2] Claims racism is behind indigenous jailing
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:40:49 +1000
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> Right, and when was the last time you worked for the QPS recruiting
section
> Laurie??
>
> karen
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Laurie Forde
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2000 11:10 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Claims racism is behind indigenous jailing
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> I believe there is an unofficial policy in most police forces, certainly
> Queensland , to recruit as many cadets as possible from rural areas---the
> reasons given are manifold, but in my opinion, , this policy results in an
> inordinate number of police officers who have been raised in an atmosphere
> of overt racism towards Aboriginal people----this attitude, passed down
> around the kitchen table, is very difficult to overcome with the kind of
> training young cadets are given at police academys which are often run by
> people from the same racist background.
>
> Laurie
>
> Laurie and Desley Forde
> Email. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Without a treaty, which spells out the obligations and rights of both
> parties, there can be no Reconciliation in Australia----Geoff Clark.
>
>
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> From: "Suze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:03 AM
> Subject: [recoznet2] Claims racism is behind indigenous jailing
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> > Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:50 AEDT
> > Claims racism is behind indigenous jailing
> >
> > A prisons' conference has been told institutionalised racism within the
> police culture is
> > responsible for the high imprisonment rate of Aborigines and Torres
Strait
> Islanders.
> >
> > Associate Professor Rob Watts of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
> says the indigenous
> > imprisonment rate is 14 times the rate of white Australians
> >
> > He says that makes it one of the highest rates within the Western world.
> >
> > Professor Watts says there has to be a strong political will to turn the
> situation around.
> >
> > "That means the policy makers - the academics, the jurists, the police
the
> senior makers if criminal
> > justice policy," Professor Watts said.
> >
> > "There has to be a recognition that we have in this country an enduring
> racism problem.
> >
> > "That means that we have to start with young police, new training
programs
> that alert them to the
> > difficulty, we've got to have law reform which is serious.
> >
> > "The fact that Australia now leads the world in mandatory sentencing
> almost entirely directed at
> > indigenous young people."
> >
> > © 2000 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
> > http://www.abc.net.au/common/copyrigh.htm
> >
> >
> >
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Charles Sturt University, Murray.
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