Majority Verdicts: Illegal and Dangerous

Civil libertarian Terry O'Gorman is opposed to majority verdicts

New South Wales is to introduce majority verdicts for all criminal jury trials, overturning a 400-year-old law.

They will be based on a majority of 11 to one.

Mr Debus says the majority verdicts will apply to all offences, including murder and crimes attracting a life penalty.

He says about 80 trials every year result in hung juries.

Some of these trials hang because of the actions of a single unconvinced juror.

Civil libertarian Terry O'Gorman is opposed to majority verdicts.

"We say how can a verdict possibly be beyond reasonable doubt if one juror simply doesn't agree?" he said.

"We say that majority verdicts aren't healthy and they just encourage compromise, and that's not a proper way to run a jury system."

Consolation prize

But Mr Debus says juries will have to deliberate for a reasonable period of time before a majority verdict is accepted, so they attempt to come to a unanimous viewpoint on the case.

He says he will consult with the legal profession on the bill before introducing it next year.

Mr Debus says while the Law Reform Commission recommended keeping unanimous verdicts, he has been persuaded by both the Director of Public Prosecutions and the head of the District Court, who want majority verdicts brought in.

Majority Verdicts: Illegal and Dangerous

Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi is one of those pushing for a new law making 'majority jury verdicts' legal, meaning that if one or two jurors believe the person is innocent, they can still be found guilty...

The Bruce Burrell case was brought down by a single juror who refused to be swayed in his conviction that Mr Burrell is innocent.

I salute him for his integrity - not to mention cartooning ability. In the first Hilton Bombings trial, one lonely juror caused a 'hung jury' and that juror spoke publicly on Saturday against majority verdicts - because, as history shows, that lone juror was right - police were lying about the persons on trial. How much easier for police frame-ups to result in a conviction if only 10 jurors need to agree!

Majority verdicts are illegal. They are not the verdict of the Jury, that is, the WHOLE Jury. The Magna Carta refers to "the lawful judgment of his equals"...not, "the verdict of most or some of his equals".

Any legislation to introduce "majority verdicts" is invalid because no Parliament can make laws which take away anyone's Rights...and the Right to a unanimous judgment from a Jury is certainly at the top of that list....but just watch as Parliament passes just such an illegal law, if it is possible to call it that!

Shame, New South Wales government, shame!

By Injustice posted 10 November 05

Ed: What Bob Debus is doing is sinister and he is just bouncing off the task of the government to make it easier to convict people. Not much different than preventive detention either where they threw out the judge and jury. If the government can make people look bad then their hope is the government will look good and that makes divide and conquering the community much easier.

All lined up just to get down.

The government are exploiting Bruce Burrell's case and they don't care less if they break-down a 400 year old law to get their own way at the expense of the communities knowledge and understanding or even our forefathers knowledge and understanding, Debus just wants more control and satisfaction as the government do.

The government are using Bruce Burrell as a pawn just like the 'terrorism fishing expedition' to roll back laws that have served us and built up a very strong and viberant community. Why?

The law has been around for 400 years for a good reason so why change it now in opposition to the 'Law Reform Commission'?

So now just look at the labor government in lots of issues when they can't win and you'll see 'they've just moved the goal posts' to suit themselves, so they can convict anyone they like of a serious crime or take away their rights..

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Bruce Burrell has been found guilty of murdering an elderly lady.

A corrupt way to treat the community?

Detective Sergeant Steve Leach: Suicide

NSW: CH/9 Sunday: "The suicide of one of NSW's most senior investigators in August has underlined a crisis gripping the state's police service" [? police force.]

I seen the police bleeding on Nine's Sunday program arguing that promotion should depend on how many crimes police have solved and not how many brains they have and that was coming from police commissioner Ken Moroney and Police Minister John Watkins?

Because solving crime then becomes a reason to get a promotion? As had been the case prior the Wood Commission into police corruption that led to all the changes in the first place.

That means more noble cause corruption, verbals and load ups as well as lots of innocent people being framed.

Then those who have solved crime? get promoted and lead the police force at the highest levels of corruption? [Clive Small].

Sunday: "Detective Sergeant Steve Leach was one of New South Wales' finest detectives, having helped collar the notorious serial killer Ivan Milat"

[? But Milat was Framed for the Tourist Industry.]

FIRM Friends of Ivan Robert Milat

Sunday: "He also cracked the 15-year old mystery of the disappearance and murder of Sydney schoolgirl Samantha Knight. Later he worked as a war crimes investigator in the former Yugoslavia.

Yet when he returned to Sydney, he was unable to gain a promotion to end his career as a commissioned officer.

He gave no reason for his suicide, but many of his peers in the police force identified with the shabby treatment meted out to him by his superiors."

[He never got promoted! Get the violin out?]

Sunday: "New South Wales, like many states and provinces in western nations, has reformed the fundamental principles of management and supervision of its police service. In the mid-1990s, the Wood Royal Commission highlighted corruption among the state's detectives and a lack of adequate supervision of police.

2,500 crooked detectives? Or a corrupt Government?

The Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. Where did the police learn their trade skills? Led by example perhaps?

Sunday: "The result saw sweeping changes to the structure of policing in NSW. In 1997, a new promotion system was established which no longer recognised the "primacy of experience" when assessing applicants."

[And no longer recognised noble cause corruption as in assessing applicants for a promotion based on skills they said they had!]

Sunday: "Detectives of Steve Leach's era found they had little chance of promotion against a new breed of tertiary-educated cops, who understood and exploited the system" [Clive Small?]

"Sunday spoke with a number of Leach's colleagues who talked of their own bitter experience of trying to adapt to the new system. They told of the despair they felt at competing with younger, less experienced colleagues and failing to secure even an interview for positions up for grabs."

The headkicker!

"Former NSW detective Mick Kennedy is now researching trends in modern policing for a PhD. He believes the root of the crisis facing Steve Leach's generation is a lack of support for field officers. "...all of the time that you're dealing with those murky, dirty-hands areas of work, what you're doing at the back of your mind ... it needs to be constantly reinforced that you're dependent upon your organisation to support you in times of crisis or when things go bad."

"Former Assistant Commissioner Geoff Schuberg, who compiled a report for the NSW Government on the promotions system, told Sunday that the new approach had destroyed morale amongst police. He and other former police warned that many senior officers were not qualified for the roles they had been given. The handling of riots in Redfern this year highlighted a lack of experienced decision makers among the new breed of commanders"?

"Meanwhile in Victoria, detectives are also feeling the wind of change as Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon tries to rid the force of corrupt police. Those she cannot charge with criminal offences, she is prepared to name and shame through parliament or sack using discretionary powers.

Legendary former detective Brian Murphy, believes that some officers are being used as political pawns as the top brass tries to reassure the public of the integrity of the force. [?]

[When Nine's Sunday program aired this story it's not surprising either. Corporations back more corruption in the community, so they too, can get their own way by being let off or not named, like the case or the Bulldogs Football Players pack rape for example!

But let me tell you that you haven't broken from the chain unless you see the reality that's behind this cry from the heart that would only encourage more police corruption.

There may have been a time when police had responsibility but they let themselves down.

The reality is what you have perceived in front of you all that time is what was actually projected from behind you and that monster is sinister. Some of us have 'seen the light' even more than once!

Now the police want to get a promotion for solving crime or loading someone up? Opposed to the Wood Royal Commissions recommendations that promotion should depend on academic skills that have been "attained" as well as "police skills" not just when some cop "claims he solved a crime" and now because of that should be promoted?

I have a reference from the Director General of this state that puts him in bed with the devil and I guess it all starts from there, considering he's behind the scenes no matter what party is in power.

And if Bob Carr is a crook what about the alternative John Brogden the Neo- Liberal slayer? Makes me puke!]

No link provided to the Sunday program because it doesn't rate!

By Propaganda Monster 15 November 04

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Australia to see the light on tourism

Richie Benaud in a scene from the new tourism ads.

Australia needed to work harder to alert tourists to its virtues because "we're the last stop on the bus route", the federal Minister for Small Business and Tourism, Joe Hockey, said at yesterday's launch of the nation's biggest ever push for visitors.

"We can't be just another theme park, we can't be another hotel room," he said. "We must provide visitors with a life-long experience."

Spearheading the $360 million campaign are six, one-minute ads that feature Australian celebrities - among them Delta Goodrem and Richie Benaud - recasting Australia in a different light. They will be shown both nationally and internationally in cinemas and on TV, with the first to be aired this month in Singapore, Italy, Britain and Australia.

Mr Hockey hoped the ads would entice new visitors who would become "life-time ambassadors" for Australia.

A total of $120 million has been earmarked for the campaign's international marketing, which tops up the Australian Tourist Commission's annual budget of $90 million.

[And absolutely no one is going to spoil that for the ruling class capitalists!!! accept the 2009 debt crunch! Thank God!]

The inbound and domestic tourism industry contributes $70 billion to the economy and employs 500,000.

[And the Australian ruling class will lock up and frame-up, for 'life', anyone for a crime against any 'backpacker or holiday maker from overseas' no matter whether they were 'guilty or not' and no matter whether they 'found any dead bodies' or whether they found any 'weapon that killed a tourist' and even if there is only 'flawed circumstantial evidence' and 'trial by media' to prove their case.

Chris Brown, the chief executive of the tourism industry lobby group, TTF, said he expected the industry, which had been urging the Government to increase funding for marketing, would now put more money into promotion. He described the ads as "sensational".

The theme of the campaign is "Australia: a different light", and is focused on emphasising the qualities that distinguish Australia from other destinations and encouraging broader perceptions of the country.

Gone are the images of barbecues and beaches, that typified previous campaigns, and in their place are snapshots of Australia's landscapes at their most stunning. Even the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge have been given supporting roles.

The Government hopes the images will resonate with those tourists in search of a richer experience.

The ATC's marketing chief, Stephen O'Neill, said: "We wanted to show a different side to Australia, not just the sun, the sea and the sand but the history and the culture of the place.

"Today's tourist is looking to learn more about the country rather than just enjoy some of its more obvious delights."

The domestic campaign will feature the slogan "See Australia in a different light".

The commercials cost $3 million to make and were shot over an 18-day period and took in every state and territory. They are Australia's response to the "100% Pure New Zealand" marketing campaign which has successfully branded New Zealand as the southern hemisphere's nature destination, lifting visitor numbers by 33 per cent in four years.

Organisations such as Fosters, RM Williams, Penfolds and the Australian Council for the Arts were consulted on their perceptions of Australia, the results of which formed the bedrock of the strategy behind the commercials.

Among the other identities to feature in the commercials are poet Les Murray, Aboriginal artist Barbara Weir, comedian Jonathan "Jono" Coleman and British TV presenter Michael Parkinson.

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Police Chronology 1994-2001

View [alleged] events in the NSW Police Force since the Wood Royal Commission began in 1994.

[I say alleged because no one should trust Four Corners [Walls], why? Because they spill out the propaganda of the day for the Government, whether it be wrong or right. A government that lies and has no remorse about it.]

1994

May Justice James Wood is appointed Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service ('WRC').

1996

June Peter Ryan is appointed NSW Police Commissioner.

August Peter Ryan is sworn in, promising to nail the bent coppers and get rid of the hierarchy.

Sep. 1 Peter Ryan's first day on the job.

November The Wood Royal Commission announces its Interim recommendations:

* Abolish the Police Board.

* Commissioner to be given the power to hire and fire all staff.

* Officers to complete financial statements and explain how assets were acquired.

* A Police Integrity Commission (PIC) should audit police to detect corruption.

[? Why should they, ( hand picked senior police PIC) investigate their own? As soon as they flicked Justice James Wood? The corruption they (police) would detect would only be those 'selected few' who would not do Bob Carr's 'Noble Cause Corruption' or those 'corrupt cops' who couldn't escape 'public scrutiny' and who stood out like dogs balls?]

* Random drug/alcohol testing of all officers.

* Require police to provide integrity declarations every 3 yrs and on promotion.

Ryan outlines his vision for the service. He comments that the service is driven by fear which causes officers to lie and cheat and perjure themselves rather than admit simple mistakes. [So that is to suggest that the cops never lied and cheated and perjured themselves for Noble Cause Corruption? Good throw off anyway!] He states that he wants more police on the streets as a lack of supervision was largely responsible for the corruption.

2,000 police march on Parliament House to protest against Ryan's new powers under the Police Reform Act which includes the authority to remove officers based on a "loss of the Commissioner's confidence". [They couldn't get their own way?]

Dec. 16 NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan backs down by agreeing not to use his new powers to sack corrupt officers retrospectively. [Why not?]

1997

January The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) opens for business. [Police Selective Commission, (PSC). If they don't do Noble Cause Corruption or if they stand out in the eyes of the general public, because they did something seriously wrong, then they get nailed, otherwise, that's alright then.]

March Ryan axes the Special Branch.
WRC Public hearings end.

April Justice Wood resigns as Commissioner of the PIC. [He won't do the dirty work?]

May NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan announces plans to sack 200 disgraced police. Final report of the WRC released with 174 recommendations on how to end the culture of corruption.

June 28 Ron Levi is shot by officers Rodney Podesta and Anthony Dilorenzo on Bondi Beach.

December Internal Affairs Operation Gymea, an investigation of the elite Task Force Bax which had been set up to clean up Kings Cross and the police service's image, culminates in the release of damning evidence at the PIC. [But perhaps not as damning if the evidence was looked at Independently?]

1998

February NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan says 109 officers had been dismissed after being identified as inept or corrupt by the WRC, the PIC or Internal Affairs.

Ryan sacks 19 officers, 18 of whom are alleged to have committed drug offences or stealing offences.

March The State Coroner concludes the inquest into Ron Levi's death and finds that the 2 officers have a case to answer. The Director of Public Prosecutions declines to proceed.

May NSW Police Minister Paul Whelan says 99% of the 172 recommendations in the WRC final report have been implemented or are close to being implemented.

The NSW Ombudsman reveals that 380 officers have been targeted for dismissal for alleged corruption, misconduct and incompetence.

June NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan announces plans to introduce random drug testing for police officers.

August NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan decides on a backlog of 300 cases of alleged misconduct. 12 officers (4%) are sacked, 75 officers (25%) resign or are declared medically unfit.

Sydney criminal Neddy Smith tells of his 'green light' while giving evidence at his murder trial.

September NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan receives from Internal Affairs (IA) a fresh list of 100 officers whose careers are in jeopardy following IA investigations into alleged serious breaches of conduct including corruption.

November The NSW Ombudsman Annual Report details 5000 complaints against the police service and 110 criminal charges against police officers in the previous 12 months.

NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan admits there was "some truth" to reports that weapons handed in during the guns back-back scheme had been stolen by police officers and sold to gangs or turned in again for money. The investigation into the matter is called Task Force Majorca.

December The Police Integrity Commission Annual Report says the first half of the financial year saw a near doubling of complaints against police alleging attempts to pervert the course of justice.

1999

January NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan admits in an interview with Britain's Daily Mail that "we are not winning on the drugs front" and that drugs are the "root of most crime".

February NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan signs a new contract making him Australia's highest paid public servant.

Feb-March The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) holds hearings into the use and sale of illegal drugs by serving and former police.

March The Police Service allows public access to their Special Branch dossiers.

April Superintendent Ray Adams retires from Kings Cross command after spending two years trying to clean it up. Adams admits that although crime rates are down that the drug scourge "remains unanswered".

August NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan sends a memo to every station in NSW advising that Cabramatta and other key commands have been downgraded.

5000 officers participate in a survey to gauge the progress of anti-corruption reform.

October On the eve of the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) hearing into the Roni Levi shooting, Rodney Podesta admits in Sydney local Court to dealing in cocaine.

November Police in inner and south-western suburbs begin a "go slow" over staffing shortfalls.

2000

May A Police Integrity Commission (PIC) audit finds that internal police investigations are "biased", pursued with less vigour than criminal investigations, and that more than a quarter of internal inquiries into complaints against police were "unsatisfactory": only 7% included checks on an officer's history of complaints; juniors investigated seniors and officers often investigated colleagues working in the same area. The PIC criticised decisions not to investigate 43.5% of complaints as "unreasonable" where the offences involved were stealing, corruption, drinking and drug use.

[However, the same could be said about the Ombudsman, and the PIC is no good cop either!!! Notice, that the PIC never criticiced itself, SEE, so who is going to do that? The PIC is selective! And the Ombudsman doesn't seek any formula for police investigations from the police who are being investigated. SEE!]

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a quarter of NSW's police patrols are officially without leaders. The Police Service advertises for 18 local area commanders and 960 vacant sergeants positions. The Police Service says the vacancies are due to "retirements, promotions and other changed circumstances".

An undercover Internal Affairs (IA)detective investigating crooked police in drug trafficking and gang warfare is arrested and charged with firearm and drugs offences.

July The Upper House Committee inquiry into police resources at Cabramatta is announced.

Police Minister Paul Whelan and the police service confirm that an investigation into serious misconduct at Goulburn Police Academy had been going on for "some time". [Who investigated Paul Whelan?

August The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) raises concerns in a report to Parliament that up to 50 officers are still moonlighting in risky areas such as the liquor, gaming and security industries.

Oct-Dec The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) hears in camera evidence [?] on claims that antagonistic senior officers are killing the reform process.

November A draft of NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan's manifesto, Future Directions 2001-2005 is leaked to the Sydney Morning Herald and published on the Internet.

December The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) expresses "concern and disappointment" at unsatisfactory police response to anti-corruption proposals.

NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan reshuffles 16 senior police. Assistant Commissioners Clive Small (Crime Agencies) and Mal Brammer (Internal Affairs & Special Crimes) are relieved of their posts and transferred to field commands.

[On claims that antagonistic senior officers are killing the reform process?]

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a leaked Internal Affairs report Operation Radium confirms officers have rorted the promotion system by circulating the lists of interview questions.

2001

February QSARP, a wide-ranging audit of the NSW Police Service, is released. It is critical of the reform process saying that although "some real progress had been achieved" it was "systematically limited", fragmented, patchy, slow and in some areas had come to a halt.

It disagrees with NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan's view that reform is near completion and criticises Ryan for a vision "which does not address the key themes developed in the recommendations of the Royal Commission". Ryan rejects the report saying it is 12 months old and narrow in focus.

March The Cabramatta Inquiry censures Police Minister Paul Whelan for interfering and for calling for the Inquiry's termination.

[The minister getting the drug money? What did he have to gain? Helping out his mates? A minister who could organise a political cover-up and could organise the death of John Newman even? Newman who wanted the drugs stopped? Paul Whelan owned and greenlighted a number of his own pubs that were selling drugs. Bad enough if it was just a bent cop who did Newman in but what about a police sinister?]

Officers at Cabramatta vote unanimously to support Detective Sergeant Tim Priest's evidence on drug and gang activity but stop short on his claims about management ignoring reports on gang crime.

Christine Nixon is appointed Commissioner of Victorian Police.

Victorian cops the most corrupt in Australia

One of the officers at the scene of the fatal shooting of Jim Hallinan from Tumut faces dismissal after testing positive to cannabis after the shooting.

The drugs case against Richard Gordon Tyler is adjourned after the court is told that an officer in the Internal Affairs unit may have lied to judges while applying for listening devices for a sting operation.

March NSW Premier Bob Carr announces a reversal of the 1999 Cabramatta downgrade.

May Police Minister Paul Whelan says police fabricated evidence to obtain convictions in "countless cases" and announces plans to establish an innocence panel in January 2002 to review suspect convictions.

[Which was terminated after one case. That doesn't make Whelan a hero!]

June The Police Integrity Commission recommends tough random drug testing be introduced immediately in a scathing report on the shooting of Ron Levi. It finds "compelling reasons" to broaden action over officers using drugs.

July Two senior commanders and five officers from Internal Affairs are stood down while being investigated on charges of perverting the course of justice. It is alleged that the officers lied to the Supreme Court to get search warrants and permission to install listening devices to be used in an ultimately botched sting operation/integrity test to trap young officers.

NSW Premier Bob Carr rebukes police leadership saying they had taken their eye off the ball in dealing with drug-related violent crime in Cabramatta. [Or they gave the green light, hence they also had to get rid of John Newman.]

The report of the Upper House Inquiry is released. It finds deficiencies in policing in Cabramatta are a direct result of the police service's failure to communicate with locals and the senior officers' failure to listen to front-line officers. [Nothing about a Green Light?]

It finds buck passing, mismanagement and low morale in front line officers and that drug related crimes ran out of control while the service instructed officers to focus on keeping crime statistics and normal suburban crime. [Nothing about a Green Light?]

August Tapes played at the Police Integrity Commission show Inspector Robert Menzies received confidential information about prospective questions from Senior Constable Graham Kel after the latter's interview for sergeant and before Menzies' interview for duty officer.

September The Carr Government ramps up sentences for gang-related crime. 16 new offences or tougher sentences are introduced in three weeks. [What has that got to do with a police chronology?

The Carr Government announces that it will make false complaints against a police officer a crime.

[And if the cops claimed someone did make such a complaint then that would mean that the perpetrator could reverse justice.]

Related:

Corrupt NSW police officer sacked
New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has sacked an officer who confessed to being involved in corrupt activities over the past eight years.

A corrupt way to treat the community?
I seen the police bleeding on Nine's Sunday program arguing that promotion should depend on how many crimes police have solved and not how many brains they have and that was coming from police commissioner Ken Moroney and Police Minister John Watkins?

NSW police drug amnesty under review
A drug amnesty for the New South Wales police force is under review, Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has said.

Police to uphold law not decide mental health
A diagnosis of mental illness could be made over the phone instead of in person, and involuntary psychiatric patients could lose the right to have their case reviewed by a magistrate, under proposed changes to NSW mental health laws.

Policeman draws blank on fake raids
A suspended Sydney policeman has told an inquiry that he has "little recollection" of the details of fake police raids he set up.

Officer planned to kidnap criminals
A senior Sydney police officer who has admitted taking money for tipping off a child porn suspect had also been planning to kidnap criminals and extort money from them, the Police Integrity Commission heard yesterday.

Redfern police need education not weapons
According to the description of one senior police officer, the ACLO called out on the afternoon before the Redfern violence escalated was "hopeless, intoxicated and had no driver's licence."

Bulldogs simply not the best!
SIMPLY NOT THE BEST AND DEFINITELY NOT BETTER THAN ANYONE, ANYONE I'VE MET.

No confidence in 'Force' when service is out the door
How are shopkeepers and service staff going to feel today knowing police are vulnerable to be attacked while serving customers at the counter of a police station?

Every dog has his day: Brammer resigns
The Police Integrity Commission found that Brammer, along with other senior police, had at times displayed a lack of support for the former police reform body, the Crime Management Support Unit.

MPs told of police corruption
Corruption and mismanagement are still entrenched in the NSW Police, and problems at the highest levels are "whitewashed", according to evidence given yesterday to a federal parliamentary committee.

Black Knight Moroney to give evidence?
Accusations about former high-ranking NSW policewoman Lola Scott's alleged failure to act against paedophiles have dominated a federal crime inquiry hearing in Sydney.

The NSW Police Force
The NSW Police Force has stopped production on its new movie Viking. Viking, showing in NSW Parliament House and in the suburbs of Sydney recently.

Crime victim group wants say in money allocation
A spokesperson from Justice Action Mr Brett Collins said, "Victims should be properly compensated regardless of the source and that is currently the law. The law says you don't need to find even the offender to get compensation. This is an attempt by the opposition to create a law and order issue-involving victims when there is in fact no issue!

Abolition of 800 year old double jeopardy law a crime
The 800-year-old rule prevents a person who's acquitted of a criminal charge from ever being re-tried for that offense.

When real safety is jeopardised in NSW
Perception of crime is still a problem in NSW, with a new Productivity Commission report showing the state's citizens feel less safe than most of their counterparts.

Call to Bronwyn Bishop's Federal Crime Inquiry
I call on Bronwyn Bishop to allow me to produce first evidence about police corruption and to be able to attend Parliament House Sydney without fear of conviction.

Australia: politicians should watch police
In Sydney yesterday the Opposition police spokesman, Andrew Tink, urged Federal Labor MPs to allow the public hearing of the claims, which include that senior police, the PIC and the Ombudsman's office were failing to investigate legitimate complaints of misconduct, including corruption in the police promotion system.

The community questions ICAC's slagging and fobbing you off?
The ICAC, Commissions, Ombudsman, Police Integrity Commission (PIC), and numerous Tribunals etc, are all arms of government set up as an insurance police for the government's 3 or 4 year election terms. In short they'll be out of office by the time you may be lucky enough to have your matter heard.

Who is bad?
Super Rat? M5? M11? K8? N2? So I trust that some people who, with the photos and guns guessed that a jury would quickly establish a case against a profiled person whom, you just had a picture and a history of. Common knowledge? The government knew their victims would take the blame. Not just chess in court, 'moving around the pieces', but 'putting false evidence, or not enough evidence before the jury."

2,500 crooked detectives? Or a corrupt Government?
Evan Whitton: Either two things occurred. If you said you didn't join the police force to extort money from working girls, your papers were marked 'not suitable for plain clothes' and you were sent back to uniform.

How to become corruption resistant in NSW
Don't trust those who cannot prove themselves with the little amounts of trust you give them. Just because they have a letter of perceived trust doesn't mean they can be trusted.

This is not how you eat 'antisocial behaviour'
Process corruption, perjury, planting of evidence, verbals, fabricated confessions, denial of suspects rights, a solicitor to induce confessions, tampering with electronic recording equipment, framing. Generally green lighting crime, and I say Murder, including the kids who overdosed on heroin. No doubt.

Black Knight - Long way to go home
In line with the current climate of police corruption and the demise of the reform unit set up by Wood, these facts ought to have been a good reason to leave Moroney out of the package as Commissioner.

Come in spinner? Or Come in sinner?
"You don't have, in my view very vigilant processes. I suppose it's akin to the problem of corruption within the police," he told the ABC radio. " People say there's corruption with the police (but) do you get the police to investigate problems within their own ranks?

Deeds
I am disturbed by Governments 'actions' in relation to shuffling the police service. Clive Small seconded into Parliament like a cocky in a perch. A breach of the fundamental Separation of Powers Doctrine does not in my view allow the thought of intervening, planning, or shuffling to stack the deck of our police service. The one that suppose to be autonomous according to Lord Denning. Where the Parliamentary Secretary can ask the commissioner of police to 'report' then sack him if he is not satisfied with such report.

Australia's Political Underworld...& their enforcers
The promotion of law and order means money to big business. Profits from insurance, security fixtures, patrol services and the like can only continue to grow if the perceived threat of uncontrollable crime wave escalates. In the past few months there have been many examples of the true nature of our blood thirsty politicians and their sinister attempts to spoon-feed a not so gullible public with their repetitious rhetoric.

Truth
Who is telling the truth? Well I guess Dr. Ed. Chadbourne or Mr. Peter Ryan may have the answer to that. Dr. Chadbourne sacked by Peter Ryan and more specifically in my view because he elected deputy commissioners Dave Madden and Andrew Scipione as the best men in the service in relation to his qualifications to make a recommendation in his capacity as human resources.That is if you believe that a Dr. can be corrupted.

Honesty
What is happening between the Police Service and politics is quite extraordinary at the moment. If stand over tactics don't work tell half the truth honestly and follow the example of sheep. Another word for it is sleaze, yeah. Another word for it is workplace harassment. Another word for it is bribing a Police Officer. Another word for it is misleading Parliament.

Tele Tales
Most people I know don't buy the Daily Telegraph. Why? Because of the lies and propaganda purported by them.

Lord Denning
Interesting how a member of the Police Board Mr. Tim Priest would hold grave fears for his safety from dangerous senior police but fails to name them or have them sacked. Rather Priest resigns as if he had no powers. Could that mean what he was saying is that the Governments are also corrupt?

Corrosive
Clive Small is Bob Carr's choice for the new Police Commissioner. It could only be the case considering his, Small's special appointment into Parliament House. Small who suffers from the little person syndrome is the ideal bend over boy who gets shuffled through his corrupt actions. Rolling the legal system for him after the fact, just like his predecessor Roger the dodger Rogerson.

Black Nexus
The Separation of Powers Doctrine is nowcontaminated witharangeofcolours, now leaving us with a black shirt on a once blue bridge that crossed that thin blue line. The 'Amery and Woodham show'.

Same boat
The Premier, Bob Carr, relies on a militia. A gang of bikies and our Police Service, to show all of us he is no murderer. He should be taken to the task along with his partners in crime like Clive Small to account for those people who like my self have been maliciously assaulted and who have complained, without any service and those who cannot speak for themselves who were murdered, like Terry Falconer. Terry murdered in custody.

Good Cop
Why have our democratic institutions broken down? It's not just the criminal justice system. The Anti-Corruption Network webmaster@anti-corruption-network.org exposes the same issues. A group of white-collar workers who say they have suffered as follows:

Dangerous
I refer to the Daily Telegraph article 22 March 2002 under the heading Priest quits advisory job.

Partners in crime - history!
Roger Rogerson, the old hero, who never faced a result in the Warren Lanfranchi, or Sally-Anne Huckstepp murders, was let off in my opinion when the New South Wales Government rolled the legal system (deciding what evidence to give the police prosecutor) to have the jury believe the illusion they (the Government wanted to create).