Exclusive: Marlene Longbottom says police are ‘comfortable with the status quo’ and unwilling to confront real problems in the ranks
Exclusive: Marlene Longbottom says police are ‘comfortable with the status quo’ and unwilling to confront real problems in the ranks
We need some massive police overhaul in this country. Couldn’t hurt to take some of their budgets and spread it out to social services that actually make us safer.
We wouldn’t need as many police if we had more social services. We wouldn’t need as many prisons either, and therein lies the reason why it won’t happen. Prison is a profitable business and intertwined with governments and campaign funds.
https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2019/06/28/1375605/victorias-prison-system-rising-costs-and-population-little-accountability
It’s absolutely central to why, right across the country, we’re doubling down on carceral approaches that we know increase offending rather than reducing it. There’s vested interests keen to ensure that.
Wow I had no idea, I thought that the privitisation of prisons was just a dumb american thing, but no we’re just as bad
I learnt about it from this banger from a decade ago.
https://youtu.be/6gVekyXw_mw?si=vWtkFHt7rnoy1Jme
Also the US is 8% private prisons. Australia is 20%.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akezwp/private-prisons-are-a-very-australian-problem