Barely half of the Victorian public feel safe or trust the state’s woke police force, which missed almost every crime target last financial year while handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and focusing on left-wing social causes.
State Budget papers released on Tuesday revealed that only 55% of Victorians have confidence in the police, 52% are satisfied with policing services, and 51% feel safe walking locally at night.
The satisfaction and integrity ratings are far below the departmental targets of 80% and 82%, down from 55.5% and 61.9% a year earlier, and come amid rising crime rates, a recruitment and mental health leave crisis, and ongoing African gang and machete violence.
According to the budget papers, the police also missed targets on family intervention order violations, crimes against property, crimes against the person, family violence, and crimes against the person resolved within 30 days.
The results mirror an internal poll from June last year which found public confidence and satisfaction in police had fallen to 58%, the lowest levels since records began.
Meanwhile the Department of Justice and Community Safety slugged Victorians with $329 million in “road safety camera” fines and $149 million in on-the-spot police fines, with the state seeing a 22% increase in all fee and fine revenue.
After last year’s poll results former commissioner Kel Glare said “unreasonable, violent and indefensible” police actions during Victoria’s human rights-violating Covid lockdowns had battered public faith in the force.
In May a court found that police had used “unlawful violence” against an anti-Covid tyranny protester and made inaccurate statements, and earlier this month it was revealed that an innocent man who was seriously injured after being infamously thrown to the ground by police enforcing lockdowns in 2021 had died.
Acting Sergeant Beau Barrett, who is now an LGBTIQA+ Liaison Officer, was suspended and charged with recklessly causing injury and assault over the incident, but a magistrate threw out the charges in court after deciding a jury would be unable to convict him.
The family of Daniel Peterson-English, who smashed to the ground at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station, have never received an apology.
The fall in trust comes after it was revealed last month that 800 officers were off sick, mainly for “mental health” reasons, while the force is struggling to fill 1,000 vacancies despite drastically relaxing entrance standards.
According to statistics released in March, there was a 15.7% increase in criminal offences in 2024, crimes by children aged 10 to 17 rose to the highest levels since records began in 1993 – up 16.3%, while youth offending (those aged 18 to 24) was up 14.7%.
But despite the rising crime rates and staffing shortages, Victoria Police has continued to use manpower on far-left causes, including holding a large celebration for “Trans Day of Visibility”, taking part in multicultural festivals and homosexual parades, cracking down on peaceful nationalist activists, and giving immigrants free driving lessons.
And in January it was revealed that 683 officers have been investigated for sexual and domestic violence over the past five years, including 185 for sexual assault or child sex offences, while the actual number could be much higher.
Header image: Right, police promoting homosexuality (Victoria Police). Leftt, police assault Daniel Peterson-English.
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