NSW Police Officer’s Casual Assault on First Nations Woman Highlights Systemic Issue
Footage capturing yet another incident revealing the casual callous violence with which NSW police officers regularly approach First Peoples has gone viral. The 22 July 2025 incident involves an officer approaching Aboriginal woman Jaleenah Collins unawares from behind and forcefully...
Cops Gone Wild: NSW Police Officers Consistently Commit Brutality with Impunity
Two incidents involving NSW police that have recently captured public attention to the point of horror have revealed that officers on the beat are acting as if their uniforms place them above the law, and that standard operating procedures might...
Calls for Charges Against Lawyer Hannah Thomas to be Dropped and Police be Charged with Assault
Sydney lawyer Peter O’Brien has called on NSW police to drop the charges against his client, lawyer Hannah Thomas, after having recently viewed police body-worn video that clearly shows a male officer punching the 35-year-old woman in the face, as...
Dehumanising Police Assault of Mentally Ill Woman Highlights Desperate Need for Reform
Two New South Wales police officers recently pleaded guilty to several assault charges as well as unauthorised use of a prohibited weapon for brutalising a naked 48-year old mentally ill woman who was in the midst of a mental health...
NSW Police Officers Plead Guilty After Brutalising and Degrading Mentally Ill Woman
Two New South Wales police officers have pleaded guilty to criminal offences after their body worn cameras filmed them approaching a naked 48-year old woman who was clearly in the midst of a mental health episode, punching, kicking and stomping...
Sydney Kebab Shop Shooting May Be Linked to Organised Crime
Police say a 26-year old man and 47-year old woman are in a stable condition, and a 25-year old man is in a serious condition, after two masked assailants entered a kebab shop on South Parade in Auburn at about...
Statistics Suggest Police Are Solving More Crimes Than Ever Before
A recent report by the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has the mainstream media asserting that criminal offences are being ‘solved’ at higher rates than ever before in New South Wales. But while these sources...
The Correlation Between Hot Weather and Increased Crime: A Concerning Trend
Hurricane Milton has officially touched down in Florida in the United States, leaving more than 3 million residents without power - and thousands lost, injured, and even presumed dead. Along with the real-time effects of the intense weather event that...
Reducing Domestic Violence Offences: Are Governments On the Right Track?
Domestic violence is a topic that people shy away from talking about - but it is a rampant epidemic that is sweeping the entire country. Women, children, and men are suffering at the hands of abusive partners in their households...
Court Declines to Issue Guideline Judgment for the Offence of Assaulting Police
In late 2002, the NSW attorney general Bob Debus applied to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal for a guideline judgment in relation to the offence of assault police, which is a crime contained in section 60(1) of the Crimes...
