Exclusive: Marlene Longbottom says police are ‘comfortable with the status quo’ and unwilling to confront real problems in the ranks
Wow, its almost as if All Cops Are Bastards.
My impression is some of the young ones are good… and then they quit like the person in this article.
We need some massive police overhaul in this country. Couldn’t hurt to take some of their budgets and spread it out to social services that actually make us safer.
We wouldn’t need as many police if we had more social services. We wouldn’t need as many prisons either, and therein lies the reason why it won’t happen. Prison is a profitable business and intertwined with governments and campaign funds.
Nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population is housed in three privately managed prisons – Port Philip Prison, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Fulham Correctional Centre. As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world.
It’s absolutely central to why, right across the country, we’re doubling down on carceral approaches that we know increase offending rather than reducing it. There’s vested interests keen to ensure that.
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I learnt about it from this banger from a decade ago.
https://youtu.be/6gVekyXw_mw?si=vWtkFHt7rnoy1Jme
Also the US is 8% private prisons. Australia is 20%.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akezwp/private-prisons-are-a-very-australian-problem
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Neville was the real MVP m8.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A respected First Nations academic has quit a Queensland police service advisory panel on Indigenous issues, claiming senior officers appear unwilling to confront real problems in the ranks.
Marlene Longbottom, an associate professor, says she has “no interest in working with [police] ever again” after resigning in August as a member of the QPS First Nations advisory group.
“The QPS say they genuinely respect the group, they value the insight in what they bring, but … then you see things like [the lack of any sanction for watch house officers] happen, and every time I turn on the news there’s another police shooting.
Longbottom’s comments come as the QPS leadership faces renewed pressure to address widespread cultural issues exposed by last year’s damning commission of inquiry report.
Longbottom said the advisory group had concerns that key recommendations of the inquiry, including calls for a civilian-led independent police integrity unit to handle complaints about officers, had stalled.
“[Its] members are working closely with the QPS to build trust and improve transparency to enhance policing practices with First Nations peoples and communities in Queensland.”
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