And to think the AFR published that rubbish.

"The Australian public are never likely to accept the police as one of them while those sorts of things occur".

Really, prove it.

Alan, if the police were to arrest everyone who broke a law then we would all be in jail. The fact is that law enforcement officers selectively choose which laws to enforce and this very much depends on the individual, there are a vast number of people incarcerated on a daily basis for victimless crimes and there are a lot of very stupid laws available for any officer with a personality disorder to enforce against anyone they do not happen to like. Professions like the police tend to attract the sort of person who likes having power over people and current testing does not do a very good job of weeding them out. Roger Rogerson is a prime example, a highly respected detective who was as corrupt as they come lasted for decades rampaging and murdering and was only found out because he didnt account for CCTV cameras. Lots more like him. Our whole justice system is incredibly corrupt if you see it from the inside as I have.

Doing away with tall minimum height requirements hasn't helped and arming them to compensate's made it even worse.

Typical of present day Australia. Ever worse ideas trying to fix the bad ones before them.

She swallowed a spider to catch the fly..

Typical of present day Australia. Ever worse ideas trying to fix the bad ones before them.
jamo,
The Peter Principle is at work non-stop fully backed up by indoctrination !

Look the problem is PC, and I don't mean Police Constable.
Because of PC we have allowed yet another thing to be contaminated and twisted so as to accommodate those stupid selfish people in our society who plead being the victims of prejudice and bias for not allowing them to do something just because THEY want to.
The biggest disgrace of all was for the soft cock politicians caving in to these maggots and allowing them to join such things as the police and the armed forces.
There were hundreds of studies as to why women should NOT be front line assets.
The disgraceful show of a maggot trying to down a man is beyond belief.
I notice, in every scenario, the men take over the physical roles.
Never mind the BS you see on TV, what you see is fabricated to give the desired effect, and that is show that women are up to the task and can match any man.
BULLSH!TE!
Women in the military, which applies to the police as well, were not allowed because it was found that men instinctively tried to protect the woman if under attack, in so doing were derelict for not focusing on the enemy instead of the woman, which led to a vulnerable front line/death.
Women DO NOT have what it takes to do things that men were designed to do.
There is a case where women can do certain things designed for men, but with some adjustments and compromises.
Such has been the egregious and callous push of the feminist movement that we have had to make major changes to the way we work and in doing so caused billions of dollars of wasted money and inefficiencies only seen in third world countries, for example;
To enable women to work in construction and warehousing we had to change the weight of certain bags like cement bags, from 20kg to 10kg, I think.
The numbers eludes me at present, but the weight of the bags were halved, to accommodate women.
We were told it was an Occupational Health initiative.
BULLSH!TE!