!@#$%^&*!

This will teach me to put off posting. Now I have too much to write about.

A Queensland police officer brutally attacks 3 young victims and gets 27 months.

CCTV footage here

What is wrong with this? let me count the ways-

1. A police office is someone who by definition is in a position of authority- this makes any crime any police officer commits worse. By tenfold.

2. The officer was convicted of three separate attacks. why the hell wasn't it stopped at one? Maybe if someone had bothered to stop him after the 1st incident, it would have stopped there.

3. Other police officers were present on all 3 occasions- by not doing anything to stop him, or reporting him after the fact, they were condoning his actions. I am led to believe from the news story I watched that some are under investigation and some have resigned over it, but still, only because he was caught.

4. When one female victim tried to complain about her treatment (she was charged with assault for scratching the bully officer) she was told if she was to make a formal complaint it would take years and cost her ten of thousands of dollars. A junior officer ended up dobbing him in.

5. In one incident Mr Price shoved a running hose down his victim's throat, almost drowning him. Where is the attempted murder charge??

6. 27 months is a joke. He can apply for parole after just 9 months. He almost killed one man and abused his position of authority to seriously assault two others.

7. Any time he does spend will be in protective custody. So on one hand his crimes re serious enough to warrant protective custody, on the other hand, a slap on the wrist will do.

One commenter/sympathiser said this "his life is knackered now anyway,no job or career no prospects of employment when finally out (as his name has been freely bandied about before any conviction etc..wouldve been tainted badly even if he hadnt been convicted of anything), no pension, his circle of friends will be decimated and he will have lost everything.."

The fact of the matter is he was found guilty, because he is (video doesn't lie) and he deserves all that AND 27 YEARS.

Cops do a really tough job, but it shakes me up to learn that there are (people) like him out there.


In other news, the Western Australian government today formally apologised for the policy which saw unwed mothers have their babies forcibly taken from them and put up for adoption.Yay! It's ok for governments to make mistakes, even really big ones, when they honestly believe they were doing the right thing. It is tragic what these mothers and children were put through, but it really comforts me when they have the gonads to apologise. Even if it is a few decades too late (better late than never!)