Tyler Cassidy, 15, was killed when he threatened police with knives
Jay of melbourne,
I would have shot him too.

Jay - There's also been a long held suspicion that Tyler and his young friends had been flagged by Police intelligence as dangerous "Neo Nazi" political extremists due to the interference of so called "Anti Racist" activists and journalists.

Other than the stories I hear from family in Victoria about the nanny state mentality prevalent there, I've had no reason to take an interest in policing. Judging from your story however, it appears all is not well. One has to wonder whether there is anything of a connection between the rampant corruption thats always existed in Queensland and the stories coming from both NSW and Victoria. In any case, the people have every right to totally impeccable police services, and there are clearly grounds to suspect the present ones are far from what they should be. I've encountered too many ex-cops who tell me they could no longer work with the issues they believed too entrenched to resolve. All of these folk had substantial experience in other fields previous to donning a blue uniform, all had rank of sergeant or above, and all claim their life would be at risk if they spoke about what they know. Not good.

P,

You should acquaint yourself with the case involving Roberto Curti to which the thread refers, then you could see how irrelevant your post was.

The only way we will get justice in Oz is to elect our judges, at the same time as federal elections. Other wise we have a system totally controlled by lawyers, who have no interest at all in dispensing justice. They are more interested in points of law, & using them to pervert the course of justice.

At the same time any one who has ever represented an accused in a criminal trial should be ineligible to become a judge. Most judges, after earning their high income from working for criminals are hardly likely to be anything sympathetic to them as a judge.

The cops do a much better job than the judges in my opinion.

That's an excellent point by Hasbeen to make defence lawyers ineligible to become Magistrates or Judges or indeed participate in policy making.
You hear that Clive ?

Dunno about Clive, but personally I wouldn't allow lawyers within cooee of ANY parliament house. The last time I checked there were none in the candidates he'd signed up.

As for the subject at hand, the law society is a law unto itself. There was supposedly a law or whatever (no doubt conceived by the law society) that enshrined judicial independence or somesuch crap. Would that possibly form an obstacle to sorting out the present debacle ?? When attempting to do anything involving the masters of distorting words, its guaranteed that all stops will be pulled out to safeguard their positions. Obviously by banning lawyers from politics, we'd be on the path at least to resolving centuries of systematic corruption, but that doesn't help fix the judicial abortion in the short term. Dunno, good idea but like all things worth doing it won't be easy.