Carjacking fails in Windsor, Melbourne

December 20, 2008
Herald Sun

A Porsche driver was boxed in by two cars at the corner of Dandenong and Williams roads. Four men having "dark complexions" wanted.

Nixon: society has reached a "tipping point"

Nov 24, 2008
Christine Nixon (via Andrew Bolt)

This is hard to explain in isolation. It has been suggested that society has reached a "tipping point" where the social and cultural developments have come together to create conditions conducive to violence.

The storm that has been gathering for years is upon us ...

The most worrying trend is the steady decline of respect and empathy ...

A push or a shove that once would come to nothing had begun to spark levels of violence police had rarely seen before ...

But it is not something police can solve on their own.

The Social Capital Crisis marches on.

Diversity and anarchy: resulting from our failure to maintain unity. Fostering unity is still our biggest problem. Unity for white folk, that is. If we can't unify ourselves and restore a positive white culture then we certainly can't help solve anybody else's problems.

Fears our crime being imported

March 09, 2008
Herald Sun

... those born in Somalia, Lebanon and New Zealand had the highest crime-per-population rates in Victoria... followed by Turkish, Vietnamese and then Australian-born criminals...

The Crimes Victims Support Association has called for migrant groups committing less crime to be favoured over "high crime" nationalities.

Spokesman Noel McNamara said migrants should be deported on their first offence and there should be a cooling-off period for citizenship.

"We should be much stricter on who we bring in," Mr McNamara said.

"A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument".

Road rage: shotgun pointed at woman's head

November 12, 2008

Video here.

'Lucy' said she was driving home at 5pm yesterday along the Hume Hwy, near the Cooper St exit in Somerton, when she changed lanes, accidently cutting off the rider.

No indication of an ethnic crime. Just a mutant motorcyclist.

Teenager to be quizzed over death of Justin Galligan

November 04, 2008

POLICE expect to interview a teenager suspected of landing a fatal blow on a youth outside a Halloween party.

Detectives investigating the death of Justin Galligan, who was punched during a brawl at a North Balwyn car park on Friday night, continued to gather evidence yesterday...

Party guests said they did not know who the gatecrashers were or why the fight broke out, but several have suggested a gang from Box Hill may be the culprits...

Another party-goer said there were rumours the gatecrashers, numbering about 10, were a group known for tagging trains.

I don't know much about Melbourne but I read that Box Hill is diverse with a lot of Asians, as well as Islanders and Africans.

Boy remanded after machete attack, VIC

August 11, 2008

A 15-year-old Melbourne boy has been remanded in custody on assault and weapons charges after another teenager was attacked with a machete.

A 16-year-old boy from Kings Park was taken to hospital with a severe head wound after a fight with another youth in the grounds of a St Albans secondary school about 11.40am (AEST) today...

A teacher and another student broke the fight up and called police, they said earlier.

Train driver ignored knife fight, Melbourne

August 08, 2008

A TRAIN driver refused to help commuters when a knife fight broke out on board a suburban service, telling them: "It's not worth my neck"...

A passenger hit the emergency button during the fight last week, and was allegedly by the driver it would take police 40 minutes to get to the scene.

"I'm not coming back there. It's not worth my neck," the driver reportedly said.

Internet blamed as 10,000 kids turn to crime

August 3, 2008

ABOUT 10,000 Victorian children aged 10 to 14 have been cautioned by police, arrested or ordered to appear in court in the past year, as a surge in youth crime continues.

Victoria Police say the escalation in juvenile crimes — ranging from break and enters to drug offences and assaults — is being fuelled by children's growing exposure to sexual and violent images on the internet.

While exact figures for the past year are not available yet, police dealt with 9860 criminals in the 10-14 age group in 2006-07 — a rise of 18% on the previous year — and say the situation is getting worse...

I agree, there is a massive need to censor gangster rap music, gangster fashion, violent video games, death metal music, etc. The success of Underbelly on television and the Bra Boys film are signs of a twisted celebration of violence under the pretense of entertainment.

Crime taskforce shut down, VIC

August 3, 2008

THE State Government shut down an influential advisory committee on crime because it was too critical of Government policy, according to a former top policeman.

Bob Falconer, a former deputy commissioner of Victoria Police and chief commissioner in Western Australia, says the Victorian Community Council on Crime and Violence was disbanded "strangely and unceremoniously" after it was about to launch a campaign to educate young people on the dangers of carrying weapons...

"Knife crime is a huge issue, both empirical and anecdotal evidence support that," he said.

"We thought we were on the cusp of getting something done then 'bang', we were just shut down...

Mr Falconer said he had been critical of the Government both publicly and privately in the way it was "dragging its feet" on dealing with the issue of young people carrying knives, which he said was one of the biggest problems facing Melbourne's teenagers today.

Brumby to tackle crime increase

Jul 28, 2008

The Victorian Government says it will tackle the rising level of violent crime in the state.

Leaked police data shows crimes committed against people are increasing, especially robberies, abductions and assaults.

The figures also show the total crime level has fallen slightly, but a smaller proportion of cases are being solved.

Wanted: cure for Melbourne's knife epidemic

July 8, 2007

ANOTHER disaster: a group of young people with knives and machetes fighting a pitched battle in our suburbs. Why is this happening? How big is the problem? And what can be done about it? ... the brutal fact is that carrying knives in public places is more common than ever...

Youth worker Les Twentyman and I first started publicly highlighting the rise of the knife culture in 1992. In 1995, the Kennett government ran a short but effective media campaign , but when the campaign stopped the problem kept growing...

Once again our weapons working-group raised the issue of an ongoing media campaign to convince young people that carrying weapons, particularly knives, is the wrong way to live. We are now waiting for fresh consultants and more focus groups to tell us what youth workers and street police have been saying for years. The only thing that has changed in the past six years is that things have got worse.

Surely we do not have to wait for more knife casualties — or deaths — before this gets the priority it deserves.

'ethnic gang warfare on the streets' of Melbourne

July 09, 2007

Liberal MP Bernie Finn told Parliament last month he was disturbed by the gang activity he saw on a recent tour of Sunshine with local youth worker Les Twentyman...

"It is gang warfare . . . it is ethnic gang warfare on the streets of Sunshine."

The Upper House member for Western Metropolitan said he saw groups of teenagers, in school uniform, gather in their ethnic tribes.

"Violence appeared to be brewing," Mr Finn said.

Mr Twentyman said the problems started in November 2005 when three Sudanese girls were being hassled by a group of teenagers on a train.

The girls text-messaged friends and about 40 Sudanese were waiting when the train reached Sunshine station. The teenagers were badly bashed.

"It's been tit for tat ever since," Mr Twentyman said.

He said the main gangs were of Vietnamese, Sudanese and Tongan origin.

Nine-year-olds in ethnic gang attacks, Melbourne

July 8, 2007

CHILDREN as young as nine are being caught up in race-based machete and knife attacks over drug turf and ethnic pride...

Police are tight-lipped about whether the St Albans stabbings were gang-related. Social worker Les Twentyman said the attack could be linked to the notorious SNK gang, a group of youths involved in a 2004 brawl that left its leader with a severed hand...

Mr Twentyman said children as young as nine and 10 were recruited by older members who felt vulnerable unless they roamed in large packs. "It's all about a sense of belonging, ethnicity and drug dealing and a whole range of things," he said.

St Albans, Sunshine and Dandenong were among the worst places for youth gang violence, which Mr Twentyman said was at its worst level since he began youth work almost 30 years ago. "One of the problems about those areas is that they're very high on ethnicity and a lot of them have issues with other ethnic groups. But a lot of it is about being excluded.

"That's one of the problems — kids feel totally alienated from the mainstream and this is their survival thing."...

Bracks urged to end ethnic gang violence

July 17, 2007

THE mother of a teenager who could lose his sight in one eye after being bashed at a 16th birthday party wants Premier Steve Bracks to stop ethnic gang violence.

Joseph Lauretta, 17, was repeatedly bashed by up to 10 youths wielding machetes, baseball bats and iron bars after they gatecrashed the party in St Albans.

His mother, Rosanna, has written to the Premier seeking more police, tougher penalties for violent offenders and better education of migrant communities...

Joseph was one of eight teenagers injured when a gang of about 40 youths stormed the party at the St Albans Saints soccer club on July 6...

Some of the armed teenagers are believed to be members of the notorious SnK (St Albans and Kings Park) gang.

July 8, 2007

From party to bloodbath in 45 minutes.

The party initially had been quiet as most of the guests were under age and not drinking, he said. The attackers, who were mostly Asian, may have known some partygoers because they were talking to them before the attack.

The gang fled before police arrived, leaving behind eight injured people, three with serious knife wounds.

Connex to crack down on Melbourne train gangs

Jul 27, 2008

Connex says it is serious about cracking down on drug use and anti-social behaviour on Melbourne's rail network.

Internal Connex documents reportedly show train users are worried about assaults, petty crime and ethnic gangs when they travel.

Melbourne train stations: dark and dangerous

July 27, 2008

ETHNIC gangs congregating at train stations along the Pakenham/Cranbourne line have made it Melbourne's most dangerous.

Internal Connex reports, leaked to The Sunday Age, show groups of Asian, African and Polynesian youths are committing a range of crimes, including assault and drug-related offences, at Springvale station and other stations further down the line - many of which are unmanned at night.blockquote>

Violent crime worst in east, southeast and Gippsland

July 29, 2008

RESIDENTS in Melbourne's east and southeast and Gippsland suffered more violent crimes in the past year than any other area in Victoria.

A breakdown by police region of leaked provisional crime statistics show violent crime was highest in police region five, which stretches from Frankston and Greater Dandenong council areas to East Gippsland.

The figures, obtained by the Opposition, show a total of 9,733 violent crimes against the person in 2007/08 for region five, an increase of almost 60 per cent.

Alcohol blamed for Victorian rising crime levels

July 28

The Victorian Government and Victoria Police have blamed alcohol abuse for rising violent crime levels.

Leaked police statistics show crimes committed against people is rising, with robberies up more than 15 per cent. The total crime rate has fallen, as have the number of homicides and rapes...

But the Deputy Police commissioner, Kieren Walshe, says... "There has been a deterioration in public order and we've seen an increase in assaults in and around licensed premises," he said.

Booze is the scapegoat, but the real cause is loss of social cohesion due to diverse immigration, further fueled by gangster chic, rap music, violent films and games, decline of the church, etc.

Call for buses to carry cameras after two stabbed

July 28, 2008

Violence erupted in front of about 20 passengers about 7.35pm on Saturday after a man and woman approached two men sitting at the back of a Ventura bus travelling along Capon St, near Chadstone Shopping Centre...

It's unusual. Normally we don't have these sorts of events but it would seem there's been an increase," Mr Coffey said.

"I think it's a reflection of social issues, but we're very serious about maintaining services as a safe environment."

Violent crime at record high in Victoria

July 28, 2008

VIOLENT crime hit a record high in Victoria last year, leaked crime figures show... a record 1.4 per cent increase in violent crime.

Last year, almost 43,000 people were victims of violent crime, including robbery, which soared by 15.6 per cent and abduction, which grew by 7.3 per cent.