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Aboriginal imprisonment: don’t confuse a social issue with a justice issue

13 April 2021

1:46 PM

13 April 2021

1:46 PM

Those who insist that too many indigenous people are in jail confuse a social issue with a justice issue, and so make both issues worse.

West Australian Police Commissioner Chris Dawson is the latest public official to demand indigenous incarceration rates be reduced.

He told The Australian newspaper yesterday: “Too many (indigenous people) are being arrested and charged.”

It’s hard to imagine what law-abiding West Australians must think when hearing their top cop complain that police are arresting too many criminals.

Although, to be fair, that’s not exactly what he suggested.

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