Quite frankly, I would have thought police officers who are originally from
the outback would be better because a lot of them have probably grown up
with or gone to school with Aboriginal children/people, having lived out in
the country. Therefore they don't see colour they see a friend.
City folk on the other hand may not have seen too many Aboriginals at their
schools etc so one could also say they may have been "...raised in an
atmosphere of overt racism toward Aboriginal people..." - as you say.
You can't blame the police service for every police officer's attitude -
people need to take responsibility for their own actions.
I am so sick of people shafting responsibility and blaming everyone else for
their problems.
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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
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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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Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: [recoznet2] Claims racism is behind indigenous jailing
> 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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>
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