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A specialist, public interest legal and advocacy project located in Victoria, Australia. #VicPolWatch #PoliceOmbudsmanNow
Sep 14, 2020 20 tweets 4 min read
THREAD: For those concerned about the police incident in Epping here is some insights from our submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria @RCMentalHealth which can be read here policeaccountability.org.au/wp-content/upl… Our client work over almost 40 years has indicated strongly that people living with mental health conditions face significant risks of death, disability, injury, humiliation and other forms of detriment when in contact with police.
Aug 18, 2020 19 tweets 8 min read
"The Victoria Police employ a risk-based system that classifies young people who have been in conflict with the law as ‘youth network offenders (YNOs)’ or ‘core youth network offenders" @DrLWeber1 @MigrationMonash #VicPolWatch Thread: "A senior local officer explained: ‘We can run that tool now and it will tell us - like the kid might be 15 - it tells how many crimes he is going to commit before he is 21 based on that, and it is a 95% accuracy. It has been tested.’