It’s almost too fanciful to be true: a prisoner is picked up from jail and taken for a drive by police officers through the suburbs on Brisbane’s southside.

He’s handed a list of unsolved break-and-enters, perhaps as many as 300. He reads the details: how entry was gained, what was taken, the time the crime was committed. And he’s told that he needs to admit to at least 20 to make his reward worthwhile. What was that? According to evidence given by the prisoner to the Crime and Misconduct Commission, police collected his girlfriend and delivered her to Morningside police station, reports the Courier Mail. And it was there where they engaged in sex and the prisoner injected himself with drugs his girlfriend brought.
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Murderers and armed robbers were allowed out of custody: one to meet his partner and young children in Roma Street Parkland for a play; another to lunch at a swish riverside restaurant.
[…]And with more than 25 officers implicated in wrongdoing – ranging from stupidity to outright criminal activity – it should not be dismissed as easily as it was this week.

The sheer brazenness of some officers seems to know no bounds. Take this example, also outlined in the report.

An informant fund existed, courtesy of the Australian Bankers Association and the Credit Union Security Forum. And over the period of its operation, 77 payments were made, a total of $17,990.

But no records were kept, an “end justifies the means” mentality meant that few rules existed, and money was misappropriated.

The punishment? Har! Resignation with full benefits of course!

In other exciting Brisbane crime news, cab drivers can be fined $100 for not having their socks pulled up.




  1. LDA says:

    If you care, look up “Fitzgerald Inquiry” from about 20 years ago. Queensland has always been Australia’s most corrupt state, this is an improvement.

  2. Mr. Fusion says:

    Yet, some will believe without question the police report when a white cop arrests a black man in his own home.

  3. RTaylor says:

    Australia is going to the dingos. They blame it on emigration also.

  4. bobbo, on its face says:

    Whats wrong again with this practice?

    No one is hurt. Crimes get solved. Guy stays in jail.

    If you think there is something wrong going on here, look to your own emotions about how punitive you think it is “righteous” to be regardless of the pro’s and con’s.

    Very simplistic thinking.

  5. noname says:

    Basically the fact that the Cops dropped the charges says the facts wouldn’t stand up in court. Especially with Harvard lawyers defending him.

    Also comments like this from a veteran cop says it all. It’s not about law, justice or right/wrong, it power, police power that’s that counts. The cops ends justify all their means they use.

    “A 13-year veteran of the Denver police force, who did not wish to give his name, said …”We have to remain in control. We’re running the show.””

    Basically the U.S. Supreme Court in various cases, Frazier v. Cupp and more recently in Michigan v. Jackson; has brushed any pretense of police ethics, and basically stated the “ends justify the means” and buys Cops’ ‘Trust Us’ Arguments.

    We live in a Police State. Police don’t serve the public, the public serves the Police!!!!

  6. traaxx says:

    Uncle Dave,

    Could you not be such a dick and plain tell where the officers are from in you story. Both the law and common law are different in DIFFERENT countries. You will notice the same thing in their TV comedies versus ours. You know it’s a little thing called culture.

    This is why is asinine for a USA Supreme Court Justice to site as part of their reasons another countries laws. If you want to be a Globalist go to China and live as a citizen and find out what it will mean to be a Globalist serf.

    Whatever………………………
    Traaxx

  7. Hugh Ripper says:

    The line between criminal and cop can be blurry sometimes, and the Aussie police forces are as corrupt as the best of em. Not surprising given our history. It well known that ‘organised’ crime has infiltrated the forces and almost every level.

  8. Uncle Dave says:

    #6: Sorry, I figured that since Brisbane was named in the first sentence of the excerpt that it would be obvious. But just for you, Brisbane is in Australia.

  9. Gasbag says:

    God I was thinking of moving to Queenland?

  10. Mr. Fusion says:

    #6, traaxx,

    Uncle Dave,

    Could you not be such a dick . . .

    Do you mean a dick as in “Dick Cheney”, the traitor, or “Dick Nixon” who taught Dick Cheney how to shred the Constitution, or a colloquial name for a penis. Although we can all understand how your instability comes about, if you bothered to even read the name, it is DAVE, not dick.

    And what’s the matter with dick, I thought you liked ’em big?


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