Almost every major News Limited masthead has all given over their front pages today to what is essentially an unpaid advertisement for the police forces.
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Competent policing needed, but lacking
Police are afraid to do their job because they are too busy looking after the criminals. Policing terrorism is particularly susceptible to this, writes Miranda Devine.
VIDEO: Baghdad police prepare for withdrawal
Martin Chulov goes on a ride down the Tigris in Baghdad with a police patrol, as the Iraqi police begin to regain control of their capital.
Beer summit: Harvard professor responds
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes of his experience at Obama’s beer summit. However, Ruth Wisse questions if Gates really was the victim of racial profiling.
The real CSI: the shaky science of forensics
Forensic “science” is a misnomer, says Popular Mechanics: it was developed by cops, not scientists, and now some embarrassing forensic failures are fueling calls for a rethink of the entire field.
Police shine light on cocaine abuse
Police in England have started testing “cocaine torches” that use ultra-violet light to show up even minute traces of the illegal substance up people’s noses and on their clothes.
Crikey Clarifier: How do Tasers work?
A Taser gun fires a pair of barbed spikes into the flesh attached by wires to the gun’s battery pack which delivers a 50,000 volt kick to immobilise a person, explains Lionel Elmore.
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Danish police hug cyclists
Police in Denmark stop bicyclists, hug them, and give them helmets.
G20 washup: questions over the death of Ian Tomlinson
Footage released overnight casts a sickening new slant on the death of a bystander at last week’s G20 protests in London, writes Andrew Crook.
SA Labor government: “screws civil rights”
New legislation presently consuming our country under the guise of anti-biker laws is no more than a deliberate attempt to destroy our civil rights, writes Mark Aldridge.
YouTube captures the NT’s most toxic culture
There’s a very special class of Australian who also happens to belong to the worst culture on earth: police culture, writes ,b>Chris Graham.
Palm Island: Tallying the injuries between black and white
The police on the front line at Palm Island did face adversity, but if it wasn’t of their own making, it was certainly made by their colleagues, writes Chris Graham.
The moral police hard at work on the Gold Coast
The arrest of a Gold Coast teenager last week for the dubious crime of wearing an offensive t-shirt is a waste of taxpayers money, writes Greg Barns.
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SBS shows the way ahead for commercial public broadcasting
Joy for taxpayers: SBS expects to make $47million in the next financial year, from ads, writes Glen Dyer.
Oz police ape their overzealous US counterparts on Henson
The sort of tactics used by Hetty Johnson and are, unfortunately, a fact of life in the US, writes Greg Barns.
NSW set to penalise defendants for testing the prosecution
It’s no surprise that NSW A-G John Hatzistergos is planning to introduce a patently unfair change to sentencing laws, writes Greg Barns.
