Author: Jude McCulloch
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522849608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
We expect the police to stop armed robbers, to arrest drug dealers, to keep the peace at demonstrations and to protect us from crime. Many of us believe that police officers need to carry guns to protect themselves as well as us. But do we want our police forces to become armies? Most of us are shocked when suspects are shot dead by police before they can be tried, and disturbed to see police wearing riot gear and using baton charges at peaceful demonstrations. When police begin using paramilitary tactics, the essential nature of their role is redefined, switching from protection and peacekeeping to active aggression. Some units within our police forces, such as the Special Operations Group, train with the military and use military weapons and tactics. In looking behind the extraordinary number of police shootings in Victoria, Blue Army examines how the Special Operations Group and their tactics-which are passed on to ordinary police-have contributed to the toll. Jude McCulloch's involvement as a lawyer in cases of police shootings led her to detailed investigation of changes to policing in Australia. Blue Army arises from her research into the paramilitarisation of the police. It exposes the risks of allowing Australia's police forces to move away from the key principle of keeping the peace with the use of minimum force. Blue Army is a very disturbing book, and one of great importance.
Blue Army
Author: Jude McCulloch
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522849608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
We expect the police to stop armed robbers, to arrest drug dealers, to keep the peace at demonstrations and to protect us from crime. Many of us believe that police officers need to carry guns to protect themselves as well as us. But do we want our police forces to become armies? Most of us are shocked when suspects are shot dead by police before they can be tried, and disturbed to see police wearing riot gear and using baton charges at peaceful demonstrations. When police begin using paramilitary tactics, the essential nature of their role is redefined, switching from protection and peacekeeping to active aggression. Some units within our police forces, such as the Special Operations Group, train with the military and use military weapons and tactics. In looking behind the extraordinary number of police shootings in Victoria, Blue Army examines how the Special Operations Group and their tactics-which are passed on to ordinary police-have contributed to the toll. Jude McCulloch's involvement as a lawyer in cases of police shootings led her to detailed investigation of changes to policing in Australia. Blue Army arises from her research into the paramilitarisation of the police. It exposes the risks of allowing Australia's police forces to move away from the key principle of keeping the peace with the use of minimum force. Blue Army is a very disturbing book, and one of great importance.
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522849608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
We expect the police to stop armed robbers, to arrest drug dealers, to keep the peace at demonstrations and to protect us from crime. Many of us believe that police officers need to carry guns to protect themselves as well as us. But do we want our police forces to become armies? Most of us are shocked when suspects are shot dead by police before they can be tried, and disturbed to see police wearing riot gear and using baton charges at peaceful demonstrations. When police begin using paramilitary tactics, the essential nature of their role is redefined, switching from protection and peacekeeping to active aggression. Some units within our police forces, such as the Special Operations Group, train with the military and use military weapons and tactics. In looking behind the extraordinary number of police shootings in Victoria, Blue Army examines how the Special Operations Group and their tactics-which are passed on to ordinary police-have contributed to the toll. Jude McCulloch's involvement as a lawyer in cases of police shootings led her to detailed investigation of changes to policing in Australia. Blue Army arises from her research into the paramilitarisation of the police. It exposes the risks of allowing Australia's police forces to move away from the key principle of keeping the peace with the use of minimum force. Blue Army is a very disturbing book, and one of great importance.
Australian Violence
Author: Duncan Chappell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Australian National Bibliography
Parliamentary Debates
Author: New South Wales. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1784
Book Description
New South Wales Law Reports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court decisions and opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Being reports of cases decided in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in the exercise of both state and federal jurisdiction, in the Land and Valuation Court and on appeal to the Privy Council from the Supreme Court in the exercise of state jurisdiction.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court decisions and opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Being reports of cases decided in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in the exercise of both state and federal jurisdiction, in the Land and Valuation Court and on appeal to the Privy Council from the Supreme Court in the exercise of state jurisdiction.
Wayward Governance
Author: Peter N. Grabosky
Publisher: [Australia] : Australian Institute of Criminology
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Analyses criminal or unlawful conduct in Australian public administration; three of the seventeen case studies involve Aboriginal people or issues - the death in custody of John Pat at Roebourne, the desecration of Injalkajanama (Ntyalkaltyaname) registered sites near Todd River, Alice Springs during road work upgrading, British nuclear weapons testing at Monte Bello Islands, Emu Field, Maralinga.
Publisher: [Australia] : Australian Institute of Criminology
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Analyses criminal or unlawful conduct in Australian public administration; three of the seventeen case studies involve Aboriginal people or issues - the death in custody of John Pat at Roebourne, the desecration of Injalkajanama (Ntyalkaltyaname) registered sites near Todd River, Alice Springs during road work upgrading, British nuclear weapons testing at Monte Bello Islands, Emu Field, Maralinga.
Australian Government Publications
Special Report to Parliament
Author: George Gurney Masterman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative remedies
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative remedies
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The Statutes of New South Wales (public and Private) Passed During the Year ... with Detailed Index
Author: New South Wales
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description