Cops hid the gang reality (that some crime is linked to ethnicity)

Herald Sun ^ | 21st May 2010 | Andrew Bolt

[naturalman1975]

NO wonder Victoria Police is furious that we yesterday published excerpts of a leaked police report on Asian gangs.

Some of the truth about Melbourne's ethnic crime is out at last, you see.

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Never mind that certain ethnic groups - Aborigines, Pacific Islanders, Sudanese, Lebanese and Vietnamese in particular - have imprisonment rates much higher than the average.

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Yet her police got the message. Take this Herald Sun report on attacks on Indian cabbies around Flemington: "Police will not officially acknowledge any particular ethnic group is a target, or that any other group is carrying out the crimes. But in every case the victims told police their attackers were African."

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He, too, has refused to release data on ethnicity and crime, and wouldn't even say that many of the recent attacks on Indian students in Melbourne were by people from ethnic backgrounds - Lebanese, Maori and Pacific Islanders in particular. Not even when Indian papers railed at our "white Australian" racism did he set the record straight.

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Yet this same study pointed out that almost everyone else except the police knew just who was doing the bashing: "... those who were known to be involved in crime are often relatively new arrivals to Australia themselves." .....

Consider also a recent police appeal for the public's help to find an African man who'd tried to drag a 14-year-old Brighton girl into his car.

Our don't-mention-the-race police once more refused to note the man's most obvious characteristic, and described him merely as having a "dark complexion". What, is he Greek?

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We need to understand there's often a risk in bringing in traumatised and badly educated people from war zones - Lebanon, then Cambodia and now Somalia - or from backward cultures and angry faiths.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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imprisonment rates much higher than the average

Racist cops!

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[Nervous Tick]

Political correctness is nothing more or less than a form of lying.

And lying is always harmful in the end.

[svcw]

To the headline: duh!

[chrisam]

Really, how many gangs aren't based on ethnicity?

[Beowulf9]

“Really, how many gangs aren’t based on ethnicity?”

Chaingangs?

[Amberdawn]

And murderous I might add.