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Tuesday, May 4, 2004

Brisbane Lions and Reloaded Corporate Predators

Former Brisbane Lions player Adam Heuskes has denied allegations that he raped a woman in London four years ago.

Well-alleged offenders certainly wouldn't admit to rape because that's a crime. And if they were not charged or tried by their peers then they were just corporate predators reloaded and on the loose.

Heuskes was reloaded and on the loose and ready to strike again and someone alleged that he did. He was charged but let off by the DPP.

Similar patterns emerged from the Bulldogs allegations that they get a second chance to victimise someone else. What do you call that? A license to rape?

Perhaps it was just a SEX AFFAIR as the Daily Telegraph would now call the Bulldogs predators that allegedly attacked and pack raped a 20 year old girl at Coffs Harbour.

Even if the Bulldogs victims were talked into sex with more than one player once doesn't mean that they wanted that to continue. Their victims may have just been seeking a relationship with one player whom they had thought they had admired because of the hype of dating a football hero

The pattern of who gets pinched and who doesn't is and should be ringing alarm bells because some of the really nasty cops say that they are protecting the human rights and civil rights of the accused.

But what is happening in the Australian States is people are getting off for heinous crimes that are excused by the DPP, who steps in over the top and that shows and enormous amount of corruption.

The rule of law represents the *power relations* of society here and not *justice*. These are interests different than ours and giving more and more privileges for corporate interests themselves.

The biggest problem letting Heuskes off the hook is that these predators will go on to influence many other players in junior ranks *that its okay to pack rape women without their consent* and *you'll get off*.

Sly! The rapists that are protected by corporate interests to the extent that no jury can feel sorry for the victim ever. Worse still is that these predators are promoted as good and not something bad therefore the community is dragged into the danger by corporations who overwhelmingly have more power and resources.

The denial came ahead of last night's ABC TV Four Corners program, in which an Australian woman claimed Heuskes raped her at a hotel where she was staying with her boyfriend's best friend, who also played for the Lions.

The woman, who was in her early 20s at the time, said she woke up to find Heuskes assaulting her.

She alleged other Lions players watched the rape.

"I remember seeing other people in the room," she said.

"It was a small room, just two single beds and a bathroom and I remember two other people on the bed next to me and there were other people down near the end of the bed.

"The person who raped me was Adam Heuskes. I know it was Adam because I met him in the pub earlier when I was completely sober and I recognised his face when I was lying on my back and he was on top of me."

British police interviewed several Brisbane Lions players, but no charges were ever laid.

A spokesman for the Brisbane Lions said the club would not comment on any of the allegations raised on Four Corners.

Heuskes later faced a police investigation over another alleged sexual assault.

Heuskes and Peter Burgoyne (Port Adelaide) were charged over an incident in which a woman alleged they had sexually assaulted her in an Adelaide park. The Sydney Swans' Michael O'Loughlin was said to be present but was not charged.

Heuskes and Burgoyne denied the charges, which were dropped after the South Australian Director of Public Prosecutions Paul Rofe stated there was "no reasonable prospect of conviction on any criminal charge".

A year later Heuskes, Burgoyne and O'Loughlin paid a reported $200,000 settlement to the woman. The trio admitted no liability. O'Loughlin said he paid to protect the integrity of his family.

The Bulldogs raised a mention as well and Four Corners [Walls] stated that, *it would probably never be know what happened to the 20 year old who alleges she was pack raped by six Bulldogs players.* Whom I may add were *not named*. Why?

That sounds more like a cover up to me that the presenter could undermine her own integrity at the same time as acknowledging a serious flaw in the Australian legal system that allows the police to cover up for predators.

At the very least some people must be named if in fact police believe that there is a danger. NSW Detective Chief Inspector Jason Breton claimed he believed that a *serious sexual assault had taken place* therefore the need to *warn the public* of the possibility that some or one Bulldogs player is extremely dangerous is essentially his job.

At least one of the known alleged offenders or even some of the alleged offenders can be charged. Even if not convicted this means that the community has some chance of knowing who not to get involved with because of the *likelihood* they may be *raped*. The matter can be brought before a criminal court and proven or not proven beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury of their peers.

By Popular People 4 May 04

THE CHICKEN: What about the honesty and integrity of those Bulldogs executives who opted out because they couldn't live with Bulldogs Rugby League Club over what they knew?

If the likes of the Mortimer brothers were decent they would give evidence on oath about what they know to be true. Otherwise they were not decent people at all by resigning from the club and the community has been let down by them and including all those junior players coming up the ranks.

The AFL has been misled into believing that these people have set an example for the community. The alleged rapists promoted and given large sums of money by sponsors to promote the game of Rugby League.


THE EGG: Is there a loophole in Australia's legal system? You bet! If alleged to have committed a crime against a person where there is proof no other party should be the judge of that crime or else we have a two tiered legal system and a bunch of reloaded predators on the loose.

Related:

Rapists more criminally versatile than Paedophiles
Parents to be given paedophile details? But rapists are more criminally versatile than Paedophiles!

Therapy key for teen sex offenders
US: One girl allegedly was raped in the boys' bathroom at Folsom High School on a warm midday in March. Another told officials the same boy, a freshman at the school, had tried to rape her days earlier in a girls' bathroom. Two other girls told investigators the boy had committed lesser sex crimes against them at school within the previous week. If true, such a pattern of escalation is worrisome, according to experts who study and treat sex offenders.

Vic database to track sex offenders' movements
The Sex Offenders Registration Bill is due to be tabled in Parliament later this week. Sex offenders will have to tell police if they change their names, address or work and will not be allowed to work with children.

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

Justice Brian Sully subscribes to jail retribution
"The high odds are that you will be found out, tracked down and sent to jail . . .then you will be as much at risk from others as your victim was at risk from you."

Gang-rape, police, disparity and the law..
The young woman and her friend have told police they met the players in Coffs Harbour on the evening after the Bulldogs played a trial match there and went back to the team's hotel with them.

Who let the dogs out? (woof, woof, woof, woof)
The Prime Minister has thrown his support behind the National Rugby League (NRL), saying the Bulldogs affair should not reflect on the game as a whole.

Today Paedophiles TOMORROW You!
To suggest there is a need to restrict their movement is rubbish! This is a grab for civil liberties in NSW and it offends everyone else who is free to associate because soon it could be you who is restricted or someone you know.

Juvenile Justice in America: Rehabilitation or Retribution?
What do you think should happen to juvenile criminals who commit serious crimes? Do you believe in the possibility of rehabilitation for these youthful offenders? Or do you believe in retribution or the punishment of these young criminals in the adult justice system?

Sex offenders: The Umbrella and the Violin [REGISTERED]
The Umbrella: John Watkins the NSW police minister has now convinced State and Territory Police Ministers to categorise label, packaged and bar code people, who have been convicted of Sex offences, as dogmatic.?

Sexual Abuse: Testimony
I'm Debbie Ingraham, and I'm an activist for Restorative Justice. I'm also a former litigant who filed an unsuccessful civil suit against a family member for incest, and a former victim advocate. I bring a 30 year personal perspective of "real life" experiences that come from living with the effects of sexual abuse.

WA Jail trade in 'sex for favours'
THE West Australian Government has ordered an inquiry into claims guards at Perth's main women's prison are trading favours for sex, and encouraging inmates to form lesbian relationships.

Plan to keep sex offenders from young after release
Child-sex offenders would be subject to court orders prohibiting them from visiting such places as parks when children are present under a re-elected Labor Government, said Carr.

NSW Prisons Inmate Development Committee speaks out
I am writing on behalf of the IDC Inmate Development Committee in area 3, MSPC at Long Bay. Area 3 is where, the Department is congregating minimum-security offenders within maximum-security walls whilst awaiting mandatory programs at Cubit (Sex Offenders Program).

DPP must decide on next step in Volkers case by end of week! Rock Spider V's the Justice System? Queensland's Attorney-General wants a report from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) by the end of the week on how it will respond to criticism about its handling of indecent dealing charges against swimming coach Scott Volkers.

Alleged Rock Spider speaks out about sexual assault accusations
Volkers was committed to stand trial last year after being charged with indecently dealing with three girls he had coached in the 1980s.

Alleged Rock Spider rules QLD DPP?
One of three women behind indecent dealing allegations against top swim coach Scott Volkers says the matter will continue to haunt her unless it goes to trial.

Punishment By Imprisonment Is A Medieval Concept
The following accounts of prison rape are taken from various human rights sites on the WWW that deal with this abuse, which seems to be in epidemic proportions in the US, Australia, and many other countries.

Monday, May 3, 2004

Rapists more criminally versatile than Paedophiles

Parents to be given paedophile details? But rapists are more criminally versatile than Paedophiles!

So who let the dogs out? Police Minister John Watkins! That's who.

THE Un- Australian: "PARENTS could be provided with details of released paedophiles, including their addresses and photographs, under contentious measures announced yesterday. NSW will become the first state to alert select individuals in local communities when a paedophile moves into their area. "

Today Paedophiles TOMORROW You!

The view that paedophiles can't be rehabilitated is off the planet. To suggest there is a need to restrict their movement is rubbish! This is a grab for civil liberties in NSW and it offends everyone else who has no corporate interests and who is free to associate because soon it could be you who is restricted or someone you know.

Mr Brett Collins from Justice Action said these are absolutely impossible laws that prevent normal behaviour by people who have paid the penalty. "Such people couldn't take their kids to school etc."

"A law preventing loitering for a sinister purpose and allows normal life would be a lot better." He said.


The failure to rehabilitate these offenders in prison is because of the lack of programs and access to them. Programs are fragmented in prison because of the *good order, discipline and security of the jail policies* which bypass *common sense* from medical complaints to rehabilitation of the offenders kept there.

That policy gives the Commissioner of Corrective Services the wide discretionary powers that also disrupt prisoners programs, mostly because of the department's obligations, but sometimes because the prisoners are simply disliked. And who is disliked the most? Child molesters.

THE Un- Australian: "The move, unveiled by the Carr Government yesterday, has been slammed by civil rights groups, which say it will encourage vigilantism. Under protocols announced yesterday, police will be allowed to give the names, addresses, criminal histories and photographs of convicted paedophiles to parents, teachers and youth group leaders if they think children in their care might be at risk."

NSW Police Minister John Watkins dubbed it a "last resort" measure. "These are quite extraordinary powers, but they are needed to protect children in this state," Mr Watkins said. "The reality is paedophilia is a high-risk recidivist offence. Paedophiles have given up the right to move freely through our community, or move silently to anywhere they could pose a risk."


Crime facts INFO: Australian Institute of Criminology 13 April 2004

A report titled Recidivism of sexual assault offenders rates, risk factors and treatment efficacy provides an overview of Australian and international research on sexual, violence and general recidivism among sex offenders. Despite the assumption that sexual offenders are particularly prone to reoffend, reconviction rates for sex crimes are relatively low. Sexual offenders are similar to the general offender population in terms of their criminal histories and their sociodemographic and psychosocial characteristics the report says.

"They are versatile offenders, with a large proportion having convictions for violent and 'other' offences, such as drugs or property crimes. At the same time, they may specialise in particular types of sexual offences within their general criminal careers. The risk of recidivism varies for different types of sex offenders, with rapists tending to be more criminally versatile than child molesters.

A retrospective study of 629 persons aged 16 years and over, who were apprehended by Victoria police on suspicion of sexual assault of adults pointed to a considerable degree of recidivistic activity between 1993 and 2001. A substantial number had been previously apprehended for violent (n=222) and 'other' offences (n=348). "

"The number of sexual offences per individual was lower than for the other crime categories."

The AIC report appears to makes the Bulldogs rapists more criminally versatile than child molesters and as dangerous and perhaps more likely to offend than child molesters yet no Bulldogs rapists haven't been named!

Questions for Police Minister Mr Watkins.

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU COULD BE RAPED BY A BULLDOGS RUGBY LEAGUE PLAYER MR WATKINS? LOOK IT UP ON THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTER? OR ARE THE POLICE GOING TO GO TO THE GENERAL AREA AND WARN PEOPLE OF THE DANGER PERHAPS AT EVERY FOOTBALL MATCH?


THE Un- Australian: Before police can release a paedophile's details, they need to establish that there is a high risk the offender will commit further crimes, and that there is an identified threat to an individual or class of persons. Police also are required to assess the likelihood of vigilante attacks.

They are allowed to disclose only information relevant to the function of the recipient, so that teachers, for example, will receive only details in their role as educators. Alternatively, scoutmasters and parents of children in a scout group could be alerted to a released paedophile who had offended against scouts in the past. Head of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties, Terry O'Gorman, said the NSW law was likely to backfire.

What's happened overseas, where a variant of the law is in existence, is that so-called key people turn out to be many people, then vigilantism starts and a person is forced to move," he said. "This is the sort of mindless populism that brings the criminal law into disrepute." Mr Watkins was at pains to point out the legislation was different from the one known in the US as "Megan's Law". That allows full public disclosure of a paedophile's location but has been blamed for encouraging vigilante attacks.

NSW police have tracked the whereabouts of convicted paedophiles since July 2001. It is the only state to have a register that requires child sex offenders to report regularly to police, providing address, job details and vehicle registration. There are currently 1200 people on the list. Other states agreed to legislate in preparation for a national sex offenders register at the Australasia Police Ministers Council in July 2003. The national register was due to be operating by mid-2004 but Victoria is the only other state to have made any headway, with legislation to be introduced into parliament within the next five weeks.

Queensland is waiting for a consultation between Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison and state representatives. A spokesman for Queensland Attorney-General Rod Welford said the state "didn't want to go down the road NSW is going.

Queensland currently detains sex offenders in prison when they complete their sentence if they are still considered dangerous. However, the law is being challenged in the High Court."


Bulldogs simply not the best!

SIMPLY NOT THE BEST AND DEFINITELY NOT BETTER THAN ANYONE, ANYONE I'VE MET.

Gang-rape, police, disparity and the law..

The young woman and her friend have told police they met the players in Coffs Harbour on the evening after the Bulldogs played a trial match there and went back to the team's hotel with them.

By Unpopular People 3 May 04

Related:

Therapy key for teen sex offenders
US: One girl allegedly was raped in the boys' bathroom at Folsom High School on a warm midday in March. Another told officials the same boy, a freshman at the school, had tried to rape her days earlier in a girls' bathroom. Two other girls told investigators the boy had committed lesser sex crimes against them at school within the previous week. If true, such a pattern of escalation is worrisome, according to experts who study and treat sex offenders.

Vic database to track sex offenders' movements
The Sex Offenders Registration Bill is due to be tabled in Parliament later this week. Sex offenders will have to tell police if they change their names, address or work and will not be allowed to work with children.

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

Justice Brian Sully subscribes to jail retribution
"The high odds are that you will be found out, tracked down and sent to jail . . .then you will be as much at risk from others as your victim was at risk from you."

Gang-rape, police, disparity and the law..
The young woman and her friend have told police they met the players in Coffs Harbour on the evening after the Bulldogs played a trial match there and went back to the team's hotel with them.

Who let the dogs out? (woof, woof, woof, woof)
The Prime Minister has thrown his support behind the National Rugby League (NRL), saying the Bulldogs affair should not reflect on the game as a whole.

Today Paedophiles TOMORROW You!
To suggest there is a need to restrict their movement is rubbish! This is a grab for civil liberties in NSW and it offends everyone else who is free to associate because soon it could be you who is restricted or someone you know.

Juvenile Justice in America: Rehabilitation or Retribution?
What do you think should happen to juvenile criminals who commit serious crimes? Do you believe in the possibility of rehabilitation for these youthful offenders? Or do you believe in retribution or the punishment of these young criminals in the adult justice system?

Sex offenders: The Umbrella and the Violin [REGISTERED]
The Umbrella: John Watkins the NSW police minister has now convinced State and Territory Police Ministers to categorise label, packaged and bar code people, who have been convicted of Sex offences, as dogmatic.?

Sexual Abuse: Testimony
I'm Debbie Ingraham, and I'm an activist for Restorative Justice. I'm also a former litigant who filed an unsuccessful civil suit against a family member for incest, and a former victim advocate. I bring a 30 year personal perspective of "real life" experiences that come from living with the effects of sexual abuse.

WA Jail trade in 'sex for favours'
THE West Australian Government has ordered an inquiry into claims guards at Perth's main women's prison are trading favours for sex, and encouraging inmates to form lesbian relationships.

Plan to keep sex offenders from young after release
Child-sex offenders would be subject to court orders prohibiting them from visiting such places as parks when children are present under a re-elected Labor Government, said Carr.

NSW Prisons Inmate Development Committee speaks out
I am writing on behalf of the IDC Inmate Development Committee in area 3, MSPC at Long Bay. Area 3 is where, the Department is congregating minimum-security offenders within maximum-security walls whilst awaiting mandatory programs at Cubit (Sex Offenders Program).

DPP must decide on next step in Volkers case by end of week! Rock Spider V's the Justice System? Queensland's Attorney-General wants a report from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) by the end of the week on how it will respond to criticism about its handling of indecent dealing charges against swimming coach Scott Volkers.

Alleged Rock Spider speaks out about sexual assault accusations
Volkers was committed to stand trial last year after being charged with indecently dealing with three girls he had coached in the 1980s.

Alleged Rock Spider rules QLD DPP?
One of three women behind indecent dealing allegations against top swim coach Scott Volkers says the matter will continue to haunt her unless it goes to trial.

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Bulldogs simply not the best!

SIMPLY NOT THE BEST AND DEFINITELY NOT BETTER THAN ANYONE, ANYONE I'VE MET.

$500,000 fine not empathy!

THE TELEGRAPH: NRL last night fined the Bulldogs $500,000 for bringing the game into disrepute over the Coffs Harbour sex affair.

SEX AFFAIR? HOW ABOUT GANG RAPE!

It came less than 24 hours after police declined to lay charges against players over sexual assault allegations made by a young woman in the seaside resort town on February 22.

GKCNN: Diversionary tactics by the NRL and do you really think 500,000 will put pressure on the Bulldogs? I don't think so!

TELEGRAPH: The NRL imposed an immediate penalty of $150,000, with $350,000 suspended, provided the club and the players face no serious off-field misconduct issues before the end of 2006.

GKCNN: But to be charged or not to be charged in a court of law that is the question for column "A".

To be found guilty or not guilty that is the question for column "B"

Why?

In the grand scheme of things take this scenario and present it to police, who have and obligation to report crime to the court.

Bulldogs: Breaking the news gently

No problem identifying her demeanour as a rape victim after the event? No problem expecting that identifying the offenders may have been difficult at the time? No problem doing a swab and finding out what DNA entered her body? No problem looking at the marks on her body where she was bruised or cut? But a problem with the accounts of others that say the victim's story just doesn't add up?

Just add that to the melting pot!

If I may add to the above scenario, I take it that in the grand scheme of things, as well, that the matter would normally be able to be judged in a court of law, where the matter was, in relation to a victim or an alleged offender.

Just add that to the melting pot!

GKCNN understands the DPP's main area of concern is the alleged victim's version of events and whether it would withstand sustained attack under cross-examination.

What about the fact with respect your DPP that the victim cannot seek a judgement in a criminal court because the victim cannot reach out to the court to give her version of events.

Just add that to the melting pot!

Bob Carr: She can take up the matter with a civil court for damages.

Ask Bob about Bilal Skafe's 55 years for gang rape (setting an example) for column "A" whom don't get charged or named. Not civil at all Bob. What has changed here? Your corporate interests? So how do column "A" set examples Bob?

Just add that to the melting pot!

The Opposition: Nothing!

They normally want to stamp on the offender's head but not this time, why? Mr Brogden what has changed here? Your corporate interests?

Just add that to the melting pot!

Now what about the evidence that is surrendered by examination and cross-examination of the alleged gang rapists? How would they perform in the witness box your DPP? Under oath? Also how would those Bulldogs executives perform under oath? You know the ones that resigned!

Just add that to the melting pot!

But did police themselves convince the victim and the DPP that she would fail under cross-examination and was this case investigated properly? I don't think so!

Just add that to the melting pot!

Perhaps we can now get police to investigate themselves to find out whether there has been any cover-up. Surely the girl was raped.

Allegedly some of the woman's claims have been called into question by other independent witnesses, who give contrary versions. Like CH 10's news reporters! Go find the dog that takes the bone and ignore anyone else who would paint the picture that describes the event.

Did the police seek and rely on negative statements to prove their case? I think so!

Just add that to the melting pot!

Now we are all gathered here in the court room your Worship where we have a victim who has been gang raped by some people and we know where the event took place and we also know about some of the people who were there and we also know that some of the Bulldogs officials know what happened.

With the greatest respect your Worship I would like to call?????????????.

To give evidence on oath your Worship about the gang rape of Ms Y.


THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: In other developments yesterday:

THE policeman in charge of the Bulldogs investigation admitted there was physical evidence of rape; QUESTIONS were raised over why three club stalwarts lost their jobs in the wake of the affair; WIVES and girlfriends of players were being counselled to deal with the affair's aftermath; and

BULLDOGS chief executive officer Malcolm Noad said any player who had behaved inappropriately in Coffs Harbour would be punished within the next 14 days.

The fine follows an NRL board decision last month to impose a suspended four competition point penalty on the club for crowd violence.

If the Bulldogs are found guilty of further breaches before 2006 the $350,000 fine would be in addition to any penalty that breach would normally attract.

As NRL chief executive David Gallop was announcing the fine, the Bulldogs board was meeting at Belmore to consider imposing its own penalties on players for breaching the club's code of behaviour.

There won't be a decision for two weeks but it is understood six players will be fined for participating in consensual sex with a woman on the Wednesday night before the alleged misbehaviour, which occurred the following Sunday morning.

Players will also be asked to account for other questionable behaviour, including comments made to the media and inappropriate dress when attending a police station.

Directors are likely to impose minimum fines of $10,000 on each player and it's not out of the question that one player might have his contract terminated.

After imposing the $500,000 fine, Gallop confirmed the Bulldogs had lodged a submission with the league against the suspended four-point penalty for crowd violence.

That penalty was imposed by the board when Malcolm Noad, now the Bulldogs CEO, was chairman of the NRL.

"We firmly believe there needs to be some incentive to ensure that football is a safe place for families to go," Gallop said.

"With that in mind we are considering the Bulldogs' submission on the four-point suspended penalty."

Gallop said the $500,000 fine in no way related to the allegations of sexual assault investigated by police.

"The NRL supports the findings of the police and asks that the public respect that this matter has been fully investigated and that no charges have been found in relation to the sexual assault," Gallop said.

"I have sympathy for the players, their families, officials, former officials, everyone involved. [?]

"Still, the behaviour of some club representatives outside of the central allegation remains disturbing and demands sanction."

The issues that led to the fine were:

THE club's failure to enforce behaviour codes for what was a promotional tour in Coffs Harbour; THE behaviour of the players at the club's Belmore training sessions; and STATEMENTS made in the media by players.

By CINDY WHAT? Disparity Editor 29 April 04

BILL HARRIGUN: It may be okay for the NRL and Rugby League to bypass empathy for money but in the wider community that's simply not the best and definitely not better than anyone, anyone I've met. Money, Money, Money, must be funny in a rich mans world! Who said that?

SHOULD EVERYONE HAVE SOME RIGHTS?

SHOULD EVERYONE BE TREATED EQUALLY?


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NRL should stand down alleged gang rapists
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Gang-rape, police, disparity and the law..
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Who let the dogs out? (woof, woof, woof, woof)
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Looking at it the wrong way!
The league kept quiet over the "abuse claim". "Abuse claim"! What about "Pack Rape Claim"? "Gang Bang Parties"? What about, abduction, molestation, violation, attack, assaults. Those words that others are branded with in the face of a vicious attack.

COPS leak prompts police warning, for protected persons?
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Gang-rape, police, disparity and the law..
The young woman and her friend have told police they met the players in Coffs Harbour on the evening after the Bulldogs played a trial match there and went back to the team's hotel with them.

Who let the dogs out? (woof, woof, woof, woof)
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NRL, Bulldogs, looking at it the wrong way!
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Police seek to DNA test Bulldogs players
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Cops Leak: Bulldogs accused of rape at Coffs Harbour
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WA: Corrupt cops and blind toothless politicians
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NSW ex-Inspector Gadget claims credibility again
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Clive Small, NSW Inspector Gadget
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A fatal car accident in New South Wales has prompted a review of the procedures police use during high-speed pursuits. Police say a man and a young girl were killed when a speeding car crashed head-on into another car at McGrath's Hill in Sydney's north-west.

Victorian author Raymond Hoser attacked
The case has been reported in some media, but severely misrepresented by the ABC who falsely implied that Hoser himself made a false claim about a magistrate Hugh Adams taking a bribe. The facts of the matter are as follows: On 21 December 1988 Policeman Ross Allen Bingley made the statement of fact that Adams had been bribed to wrongly convict Hoser of Theft and assault charges. This was tape-recorded and has been transcribed since. Hoser was innocent and exonerated on appeal.

NSW Police Force: Bent cop Cribb should be treated no different
34-year-old police inspector Shane Cribb, who shot a man shouldn't be treated differently than any other person charged with the same offence. The Daily Telegraph this morning is calling for special consideration for the cop.

One arrested in random raids: Police
A man has been arrested at a house in Punchbowl in one of 10 simultaneous raids on properties in Sydney's south-west this morning.

Random police raid terrorised residents
A police task Force randomly targeting gang warfare [and criminals green lighted by police themselves], is investigating nine murders and one disappearance, including a shooting death that sparked a dramatic random dawn raid in south-western Sydney yesterday.

Three men arrested over deadly drug feud
In a day of extraordinary developments in investigations into gangland violence [and police corruption], in southwest Sydney, armed plainclothes detectives from strike force Gain swooped on three men in the shopping area of the Star City Casino complex at about 2.30pm.

Drive-by shootings: test your political IQ?
Sydney was being controlled by around a thousand gun-toting young men and a new jail was needed to put them in, the NSW opposition said on Friday, in the wake if Sydney's drive-by shootings.

NSW drug wars: family feud not responsible for shootings
Do New South Wales citizens have to be diverted from the truth about a drug infested gangland killing? Why did the police lie? Why did the Premier lie? What is wrong with our government and police, are they on the take? Are they on drugs? Are these people being drug tested?

NSW Opp calls for greater police powers
The New South Wales Opposition has used the latest fatal shooting in Sydney's south-west to call for police to be given powers to conduct random car searches.

Hollingsworth: Whistleblower meeting at Mensa
The speaker will be Kim Hollingsworth, another idealist woman police whistleblower who reported corruption within the service and wouldn't back down, despite suffering financial and emotional distress, as a consequence of Police victimisation of her.

First degree murder? Or Noble Cause Corruption?
A "STUDENT" who was alleged to be involved in a murder and armed robberies is being sent to university, after turning police informant, the man has been given indemnity from prosecution relating to a string of serious offences. These include a hold-up in which shopkeeper Khiem Lu was stabbed to death.

Australian drivers licence dangerous weapon
In the hands of police the Australian motor vehicle driver's licence has become, and soon becoming a very dangerous and powerful weapon that can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Licensed to drive, be intimidated, be harassed, and interfered with?
NSW Police should not be given any more power to stop drivers going about their business. These new powers are just a substitute for the recent attack on privacy, whereby police wanted to search for guns by stopping drivers randomly.

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released the National Deaths in Custody Program annual report for 2002 Between January and December 2002, there was a total of 69 deaths in custody in Australia. There were 50 deaths in prison custody and 19 deaths in police custody and custody-related police operations.

Police WarLords set to take over Sydney again
Police warlords are set to take over Sydney's suburbs because police are not being supervised properly.

Jailed man's conviction to be reviewed
The New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal will today review the conviction of a man, after claims in the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) last year that police planted weapons and faked suspects' confessions.

Rookies step up to ranks of Keystone-Cops?
Officers untrained in major criminal investigation are being posted to the state's elite body of detectives.

The inaugural Australian Police Summit
The inaugural Australian Police Summit (APS) will take place 18-19 June 2003 at the Australian Technology Park, Sydney. APS is Australia's only dedicated event focusing on all aspects of Law Enforcement and Policing.

NSW Police! Soothsayers or slayers? Strategy part 3 Permit denial
Part three: Refuse to grant a permit for another planned march because they manipulated the populist view. How? By exploiting your argument and eroding the public's confidence in peaceful demonstrations and by using the media to tell their lies, then using that as a weapon against peace.

Police violence fractures Peace movements?
The resolution also criticised New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Dick Adams for creating a threatening environment by mobilising excessive force for the protest.

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?

'Police Integrity Commission' Why do you lie like that?
A Police Integrity Commission inquiry which took more than a year, heard more than 50 witnesses - many of them senior police - and cost millions of dollars, has recommended that no action be taken against anyone.

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.

Terry Falconer: KILLED IN CUSTODY
TERRY FALCONER CASE: Terry Falconer was picked up by a uniformed policeman and two detectives on work release from Silverwater jail. Handcuffed and found two weeks later chopped up in chicken wire at Wauchope and dumped below the tide mark. Two fishermen found Falconer.

The body in the seven bags still hides its secrets Who is going to report this failure by the NSW police to solve this most important crime? When there is evidence that the perpetrator was the police who are the same people who are investigating the crime or said to be investigating the crime. The diversion here is that bikies committed the crime even though the head of Rebells bikie gang worked for the NSW police for 22 years in an elite tactical response group.

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.

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).

Police Chronology 1994-2001
View events in the NSW Police Force since the Wood Royal Commission began in 1994. 1994 May Justice James Wood is appointed Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service ('WRC').

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Why the Bulldogs rape case failed?

'That's My Game' Case closed...Detective Chief Inspector Jason Breton.

AFTER two months of turmoil, the rape case against six Bulldogs rugby league players has collapsed, with police saying there was insufficient evidence to press charges.

IT is the moment any investigator dreads.
[Just plain rubbish and a cover-up.]

The moment when corporate interests start to appear in the victims version of events. It is even worse when the alleged offender's aren't named and much of the case hinges on the trauma caused to the victim.

This moment came for strike force McGuigon when the Bulldogs player's initial interviews appeared to be at odds [?] with the evidence of a 20-year old woman that alleges she was gang raped by six of the team.

The pressure was on the The Daily Telegraph, the ABC and Channel Nine and what the victim was saying also appeared to be at odds with corporate interests including the AFL and even with what Prime Minister John Howard said.

Bulldogs: Breaking the news gently

The Prime Minister has thrown his support behind the National Rugby League (NRL), saying the Bulldogs affair should not reflect on the game as a whole.

Precisely, it was when investigators learned that there was huge corporate interests at stake that detectives started looking for clues that did not add up instead of looking for clues that did at the Plantation Hotel Coffs Harbour.

It's a big deal in the grand scheme of things; (corporate interests) except that the case appears to hinge (according to police) on what the victim had told them. But how she was raped and what the forensic examination should have revealed in relation to her claim of being gang raped did not rate?

The Telegraph: "She told them her friend traveled there with a player, leaving her wallet behind and that she needed to return the wallet to her."

"The anomaly could of course be explained by the fact that outside the hotel that morning the woman had an altercation with one player". Say's the Daily Telegraph.

"she had pointed at him, suggesting she would "fuck him" that night. He had responded angrily, calling her unsavoury names, which included something such as "low-life". Earlier in the evening, somewhere upstairs in an accommodation section of the hotel, she had already had consensual sex with another player."

"The wallet could have fallen to the ground in the ensuing struggle outside the hotel. Or it could have been that she was embarrassed to tell police why she really went there."

GKCNN: Sounds like we need to hear the 20-year-olds story and her account of the event. What about "A Current Affair"? Or "Sixty Lies a Minute" Or perhaps "Four Corners Walls" could they get the job done for the community? Or would they be more likely to rub the trauma back into the victim's face.

The icing on the cake for corporate interests perhaps?

Telegraph: "Whatever happened with the wallet, it did not bode well for investigators tasked with seriously investigating her claims of gang rape by up to six players."

"They were acutely aware that the whole case hinged on her credibility and the ability of her version of events to withstand torrid cross-examination should the matter ever reach a courtroom."

GKCNN: Shame about the wallet? Do you feel more sorry for the wallet than the girl does now? Perhaps if we investigate who made the wallet we may get to the bottom of all of this. Did the police DNA test the wallet to see where the hide of the police came from investigating the wallet instead of the banged up woman?

Telegraph: "It was just one small issue but it was important."

GKCNN: Surely not as important as the Woman being gang raped!

Telegraph: "And it didn't get any better when later she was called upon to identify her alleged attackers from police photoboards."

"She had told police, in her initial interviews, that she was gang raped, orally, vaginally and anally, by up to six players at the swimming pool area that morning."

"But she was unable, when shown the photos, to identify six players."

"Police had also hoped DNA evidence may help to corroborate the young woman's version of events and narrow down just who did what." [?]

"It was a long shot anyway, because if all the players got to court and claimed consent it meant little. On the other hand it could help trap anyone who was lying."

"But at the end of the day the DNA was of no value. It didn't link the woman and players." [?]

GKCNN: It linked the woman to the wallet? Or the wallet to corporate interests?

Telegraph: "Suddenly the cracks were becoming gaping chasms. In sexual assault cases identity is all-important. Without a positive identification from the woman and in the "absence of other good corroborative evidence" the case was beginning to unravel.

GKCNN: Well sounds like there were "gaping chasms" but just like police wanted it with no other good corroborative evidence and by ignoring forensic evidence the case is closed.

Telegraph: "Then there was one footballer who had put up his hand and admitted receiving consensual oral sex from the young woman that morning. Except in one version of events the woman denied that ever took place."

"Heaped on top of all this was evidence from some independent witnesses, workers at the resort, who reported seeing her frolicking, as they saw it, happily in the swimming pool about 6.30am."

"If this was true her version as to the timing of the alleged attacks and the amount of daylight around at the time must be wrong. With all this extra evidence coming in she was called back for further questioning in a bid to clarify her statements."

"Complicating matters even further was the fact that some of the players, who had been interviewed by police that same day in Coffs Harbour, had stuck by their original versions, including those who admitted consensual sex with her."

"At the end of the day it was a firm decision. Was there, based on the available and admissible evidence, a reasonable prospect of conviction? The DPP decided no. The standard of proof for any prosecution is extremely high and in sexual assault cases it is even higher."

By CINDY WHAT? Disparity Editor 28 April 04

THE REFEREE: No! The police decided "absence of other good corroborative evidence" including the "victim" and the "forensic examination of the woman".

That is how investigations are won and lost, it depends on the investigation. What other good corroborative evidence you are willing to investigate and what is produced for the DPP to take into account.

If it were anyone else they would have been done for the crime and nailed to the wall. As the good policeman said " This should not discourage other rape victims from coming forward". Why? Because if you've no corporate interests you'll get done. No doubt about that.


Related:

Bulldogs: Breaking the news gently
THE chances of rape charges being laid against any Canterbury Bulldogs players appear slim says the Daily Telegraph after preliminary advice? Indicated? There was insufficient evidence?

NRL should stand down alleged gang rapists
National Rugby League (NRL) boss David Gallop has called on the Bulldogs to provide details about a player who's tested positive to cocaine during tests conducted by the club last year.

Gang-rape, police, disparity and the law..
The young woman and her friend have told police they met the players in Coffs Harbour on the evening after the Bulldogs played a trial match there and went back to the team's hotel with them.

Who let the dogs out? (woof, woof, woof, woof)
The Prime Minister has thrown his support behind the National Rugby League (NRL), saying the Bulldogs affair should not reflect on the game as a whole.

Looking at it the wrong way!
The league kept quiet over the "abuse claim". "Abuse claim"! What about "Pack Rape Claim"? "Gang Bang Parties"? What about, abduction, molestation, violation, attack, assaults. Those words that others are branded with in the face of a vicious attack.

COPS leak prompts police warning, for protected persons?
Police are warning media outlets they may face criminal charges if they release confidential information about investigations.

Related Police Corruption Links:

NSW ex-Inspector Gadget claims credibility again
Just how credible is this former cop? Small's claim on Four Corners [Walls, a government propaganda machine], tonight, [that], the Government warned about Redfern problems before the riot. Like he's Mr squeaky-clean? Bad news more like it, Small was the say anything, do anything, ex-cop from hell for Bob Carr and his cronies.

Court accuses police of planting evidence
A magistrate in the south-western New South Wales city of Wagga Wagga says police there nearly beat a man to death, fabricated evidence about him, and later lied in court about the incident.

Gang-rape, police, disparity and the law..
The young woman and her friend have told police they met the players in Coffs Harbour on the evening after the Bulldogs played a trial match there and went back to the team's hotel with them.

Who let the dogs out? (woof, woof, woof, woof)
The Prime Minister has thrown his support behind the National Rugby League (NRL), saying the Bulldogs affair should not reflect on the game as a whole.

NRL, Bulldogs, looking at it the wrong way!
The league kept quiet over the "abuse claim". "Abuse claim"! What about Pack Rape Claim? Gang Bang Parties? What about, abduction, molestation, violation, attack, assaults. Those words that others are branded with in the face of a vicious attack.

Police seek to DNA test Bulldogs players
Police in New South Wales are hoping to DNA test all Canterbury Bulldogs first grade rugby league players in relation to allegations of sexual assault. A 20-year-old woman says she was assaulted by six players at a resort hotel at Coffs Harbour on New South Wales's north coast.

Cops Leak: Bulldogs accused of rape at Coffs Harbour
Police are warning media outlets they may face criminal charges if they release confidential information about investigations. Allegations that as many as six Bulldogs rugby league players had sexually assaulted a woman at Coffs Harbour.

Related Police Corruption Links:

WA: Corrupt cops and blind toothless politicians
Geoffrey Kennedy QC's $28 million report yesterday labelled the service "mediocre", blaming lack of leadership for corruption as extensive as that found by the 1987 Fitzgerald inquiry in Queensland and NSW's 1997 Wood commission.

Redfern police 'need to be made accountable'
POLICE have no right to demand increased support to patrol Redfern in the wake of one of the worst death in custody cover-ups by police in Australian history.

Fatal accident prompts police pursuit probe
A fatal car accident in New South Wales has prompted a review of the procedures police use during high-speed pursuits. Police say a man and a young girl were killed when a speeding car crashed head-on into another car at McGrath's Hill in Sydney's north-west.

Capsicum spray killed Brisbane man
A 26-year-old man has died in Brisbane after a scuffle with police in the inner-city suburb of Highgate Hill. Police say they went to a unit complex just after midnight to speak to the man. Inspector Ian Robinson says police used capsicum spray and the man collapsed and died.

Riot in Redfern over death in custody
The reported claim that 50 police were injured during rioting in Redfern over a death in custody is nothing more than a counter claim required to balance the argument that Thomas Hickey wasn't chased to his death by police.

Fatal accident prompts police pursuit probe
A fatal car accident in New South Wales has prompted a review of the procedures police use during high-speed pursuits. Police say a man and a young girl were killed when a speeding car crashed head-on into another car at McGrath's Hill in Sydney's north-west.

Victorian author Raymond Hoser attacked
The case has been reported in some media, but severely misrepresented by the ABC who falsely implied that Hoser himself made a false claim about a magistrate Hugh Adams taking a bribe. The facts of the matter are as follows: On 21 December 1988 Policeman Ross Allen Bingley made the statement of fact that Adams had been bribed to wrongly convict Hoser of Theft and assault charges. This was tape-recorded and has been transcribed since. Hoser was innocent and exonerated on appeal.

NSW Police Force: Bent cop Cribb should be treated no different
34-year-old police inspector Shane Cribb, who shot a man shouldn't be treated differently than any other person charged with the same offence. The Daily Telegraph this morning is calling for special consideration for the cop.

One arrested in random raids: Police
A man has been arrested at a house in Punchbowl in one of 10 simultaneous raids on properties in Sydney's south-west this morning.

Random police raid terrorised residents
A police task Force randomly targeting gang warfare [and criminals green lighted by police themselves], is investigating nine murders and one disappearance, including a shooting death that sparked a dramatic random dawn raid in south-western Sydney yesterday.

Three men arrested over deadly drug feud
In a day of extraordinary developments in investigations into gangland violence [and police corruption], in southwest Sydney, armed plainclothes detectives from strike force Gain swooped on three men in the shopping area of the Star City Casino complex at about 2.30pm.

Drive-by shootings: test your political IQ?
Sydney was being controlled by around a thousand gun-toting young men and a new jail was needed to put them in, the NSW opposition said on Friday, in the wake if Sydney's drive-by shootings.

NSW drug wars: family feud not responsible for shootings
Do New South Wales citizens have to be diverted from the truth about a drug infested gangland killing? Why did the police lie? Why did the Premier lie? What is wrong with our government and police, are they on the take? Are they on drugs? Are these people being drug tested?

NSW Opp calls for greater police powers
The New South Wales Opposition has used the latest fatal shooting in Sydney's south-west to call for police to be given powers to conduct random car searches.

Hollingsworth: Whistleblower meeting at Mensa
The speaker will be Kim Hollingsworth, another idealist woman police whistleblower who reported corruption within the service and wouldn't back down, despite suffering financial and emotional distress, as a consequence of Police victimisation of her.

First degree murder? Or Noble Cause Corruption?
A "STUDENT" who was alleged to be involved in a murder and armed robberies is being sent to university, after turning police informant, the man has been given indemnity from prosecution relating to a string of serious offences. These include a hold-up in which shopkeeper Khiem Lu was stabbed to death.

Australian drivers licence dangerous weapon
In the hands of police the Australian motor vehicle driver's licence has become, and soon becoming a very dangerous and powerful weapon that can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Licensed to drive, be intimidated, be harassed, and interfered with?
NSW Police should not be given any more power to stop drivers going about their business. These new powers are just a substitute for the recent attack on privacy, whereby police wanted to search for guns by stopping drivers randomly.

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released the National Deaths in Custody Program annual report for 2002 Between January and December 2002, there was a total of 69 deaths in custody in Australia. There were 50 deaths in prison custody and 19 deaths in police custody and custody-related police operations.

Police WarLords set to take over Sydney again
Police warlords are set to take over Sydney's suburbs because police are not being supervised properly.

Jailed man's conviction to be reviewed
The New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal will today review the conviction of a man, after claims in the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) last year that police planted weapons and faked suspects' confessions.

Rookies step up to ranks of Keystone-Cops?
Officers untrained in major criminal investigation are being posted to the state's elite body of detectives.

The inaugural Australian Police Summit
The inaugural Australian Police Summit (APS) will take place 18-19 June 2003 at the Australian Technology Park, Sydney. APS is Australia's only dedicated event focusing on all aspects of Law Enforcement and Policing.

NSW Police! Soothsayers or slayers? Strategy part 3 Permit denial
Part three: Refuse to grant a permit for another planned march because they manipulated the populist view. How? By exploiting your argument and eroding the public's confidence in peaceful demonstrations and by using the media to tell their lies, then using that as a weapon against peace.

Police violence fractures Peace movements?
The resolution also criticised New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Dick Adams for creating a threatening environment by mobilising excessive force for the protest.

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.

Terry Falconer: KILLED IN CUSTODY
TERRY FALCONER CASE: Terry Falconer was picked up by a uniformed policeman and two detectives on work release from Silverwater jail. Handcuffed and found two weeks later chopped up in chicken wire at Wauchope and dumped below the tide mark. Two fishermen found Falconer.

The body in the seven bags still hides its secrets Who is going to report this failure by the NSW police to solve this most important crime? When there is evidence that the perpetrator was the police who are the same people who are investigating the crime or said to be investigating the crime. The diversion here is that bikies committed the crime even though the head of Rebells bikie gang worked for the NSW police for 22 years in an elite tactical response group.

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.

Clive Small, NSW Inspector Gadget
After the Wood Royal Commission the real gang behind the gangs at Kings Cross moved from Kings Cross to Cabramatta. After the killing of John Newman, who was gunned down in front of his home by a person not found and a weapon not found, but by a person who was alleged to have conspired to kill Newman for political purposes, was framed and jailed.

'Police Integrity Commission' Why do you lie like that?
A Police Integrity Commission inquiry which took more than a year, heard more than 50 witnesses - many of them senior police - and cost millions of dollars, has recommended that no action be taken against anyone.

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.

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).

Police Chronology 1994-2001
View events in the NSW Police Force since the Wood Royal Commission began in 1994. 1994 May Justice James Wood is appointed Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service ('WRC').