AUSTRALIAN NEW COMMENTARY:
Left-wing journalists, in their dumbed-down, sanitised, politically correct version of Australian "news" have depicted mandatory sentencing laws as the jailing of Aboriginals for stealing biscuits. They refuse to give a true picture of Aboriginal crime.
This article aims to put some perspective into the issue Aboriginal crime. It is a sad reflection on the mainstream media that none of them would have the guts or integrity to publish such an article.
It must be said at the outset that the majority of Aboriginals are law-abiding citizens. But a significant minority consider themselves above the law.
These are some of the reasons mandatory sentencing was introduced into WA
87-year old widow bashed by Aboriginal thief
Elsie Hughes woke from a nap in her home in the Perth suburb of Lathlain to find a teenage intruder in her kitchen.
She offered him a cup of tea. In return, he viciously beat her. The next thing Elsie Hughes remembers is waking up in Royal Perth Hospital with two black eyes, a broken cheekbone and severe bruising to her face and neck.
This is the person police are seeking to interview over the vicious bashing of Elsie Hughes.
He is described as an Aborigine, about 180cm tall, of medium build with dark curly hair. He was wearing a dark jumper.
Elderly people live in fear
Many of Perth's elderly people barricade themselves in their houses, in a constant state of fear due to the prevalence of home invasions and senseless bashings. One retirement home has applied to the local council to build an electric fence around the property to protect the inhabitants from constant home invasions.
The rights of our senior citizens to live in peace should come before the loudly-trumpeted rights of criminals (black or white).
The spark that ignited community outrage
A tall, well-built, 22-year-old Aboriginal man, who we cannot name because of the archaic law relating to juveniles, but who we will call Kaypee, was the spark that ignited community outrage at soft sentencing of Aborigines, and led to mandatory sentencing of repeat offenders in WA.
In a high-speed chase on Christmas day 1991, he crashed his stolen car into a family car, killing Margaret Blurton, who was pregnant, and her year-old son, Shane.
The court was told Kaypee had around 400 convictions as a juvenile offender.
At his trial, he was again he was given a soft sentence. Community outrage led to more than 20,000 people marching on parliament demanding tougher sentences for repeat offenders. The marchers targeted judges for handing out lenient sentences. The government reacted by introducing mandatory sentencing for repeat offenders.
Kaypee in the meantime continues to re-offend.
More victims of Aboriginal crime in WA
LEFT: 22 year-old Lee Dodson was attacked when he confronted three Aboriginal youths trying to steal work tools from his car outside his Coolbellup home. Mr Dodson was stabbed in the stomach and forehead with a 15cm screwdriver.
RIGHT: 51 year-old invalid pensioner, Alan Proctor, received a broken nose, cheek and hand as well as lacerations to his face when he was viciously attacked by two Aboriginal youths near the Ashfield train station.. Mr Proctor was repeatedly kicked after he fell to the ground during the attack.
Man, wife bashed by Aboriginal gang
James Mayers received permanent eye damage, a fractured cheek and broken nose when he and his wife were attacked by a teenage gang of 20 Aboriginal youths near the Bayswater railway station. The gang followed Mr Mayers and his wife from the railway station, surrounded the couple and then smashed Mr Mayers to the ground and kicked him repeatedly in the head. Mr Mayers said "It was a very savage beating. I was king-hit and went down . They didn't stop once I was down. They were whipped into frenzy. They were whooping and hollering". Mrs Mayers, who was punched several times, said, "They were like a pack of animals". There were 5 girls in the gang.
Brutal murder and rape
Aboriginals, Ryan Jarrid Kenneally and Bevan Joseph Lawson, brutally assaulted a young South Hedland woman and murdered her fiancée. The woman was sexually assaulted by a bottle wielded by the men.
Her fiancée was then murdered. Kenneally thrust a 20cm kitchen knife through his heart with such force it came out his back. He died almost immediately.
Both men decided the woman had to be killed because she was a witness. Kenneally said to her, "You know what is going to happen to you", and then slit her throat.
The woman pretended to be dead. The men stabbed her again, hit her in the back and left. The woman survived and was able to identify her attackers.
Why point up Aboriginal crime?
The public is sick of the sympathy given to criminals by the elitist alliance of academics, lawyers, judges, politicians and the media. The do-gooders and bleeding-hearts have no concept of Aboriginal crime and its consequences. It is not about stealing biscuits. It is about home invasions, bashings, rape and murder. There are real victims out there.
Nobody makes a criminal bash an elderly lady, or kick a man nearly to death or rape a woman and then slit her throat or thrust a knife through a man's heart. It is their choice to do it. The mainstream view is: if you do the crime, you do the time.
Only a minority of Aboriginals offend. While this lawless minority are allowed to offend repeatedly, they tarnish the image of the majority of decent, law-abiding Aboriginals.
The source of the problem
In my opinion, the reason Aboriginal crime is out of proportion to the Aboriginal population is due to two causes:
The do-gooder mentality of labelling groups such as Aboriginals as "victims".
If you constantly tell a person he is a victim, he will build up a mind-set of hatred and revenge. He also gets the idea that he is not responsible for his actions. He can do anything, get away with any crime and he is not responsible. Labelling a group as "victims" is probably the most effective way of destroying the group's morale, aspirations and future.

This culture has produced a small hard-core of incorrigible Aboriginal criminals who openly flout the law, knowing the Aboriginal Legal Service will use unlimited amounts of taxpayers money and play the "racist" and "victim" cards to get them off all but the most serious charges.
The Aboriginal industry
- the collection of taxpayer-funded Aboriginal misfits and white lawyers, journalists, anthropologists and others with their snouts in the public trough. Members of this industry control billions of dollars of taxpayer funds. The Aboriginal "leaders" have a vested interest in creating and prolonging conflict between white and black communities. If there was no conflict, they would not keep their jobs. They help perpetuate the "victim" syndrome. These demagogues enjoy great perks, privileges, wealth and power at the expense of taxpayers and the rest of the Aboriginal population.
http://www.australian-news.com.au/abocrime.htm
What is meant by the term, "Aboriginals are over-represented in jails"?
The journalists and PR experts working, at taxpayer expense, for the Aboriginal industry have created a number of terms best described as emotive propaganda. One such term is "Aboriginals are over-represented in jails"
You wouldn't think they would publicise such a fact. But the propaganda effect has turned a negative into a positive. The term has been picked up and used by the Aboriginal industry, judges and do-gooders to try and make us all feel guilty about jailing any Aboriginal, regardless of the crime.
There may be some validity to this term if Aboriginals received longer jail sentences than white offenders. But the reverse is the case. On average, Aboriginals receive 42% shorter jail terms than non-Aboriginals jailed for the same offence (read the article "Judges soft on Aboriginal criminals").
Why are Aboriginals "over-represented" in jails
Simply because they commit more crime. According to the University of WA crime research centre, while Aboriginals make up less than 3% of the population, they commit 20% of the violent crime in Western Australia.
The research centre also found that one in five assaults, one in three robberies, more than one in three homicides and about one in ten sexual offences are inter-racial. About 93% of those involve Aboriginal offenders and non-Aboriginal victims.
That is why Aboriginals are "over-represented" in the criminal justice system. No amount of posturing and emotional blackmail can change the facts.
The hidden victims of Aboriginal crime
Picture: Northern Territory Police department
While the judges and do-gooders protect Aboriginal criminals (mainly males) from justice, they help perpetuate violence against Aboriginal women and children
The judges and do-gooders should read the following statistics and then hang their heads in shame:
Up to 50 per cent of Aboriginal children are victims of family violence and child abuse
A survey carried out among 120 households in Adelaide found 90 per cent of the women and 84 per cent of the young girls had been raped at some stage of their lives.
In most States, more than 70 per cent of assaults on Aboriginal women are carried out by their husbands or boyfriends
Aboriginal women are 20 times more likely than non-Aboriginal women to be victims of violence
http://www.australian-news.com.au/aborepresent.htm
Judges sentence Aboriginals to 43% shorter jail terms than the rest of the population
If you are an Aboriginal felon then you can expect a jail term 42.8% shorter than a non- Aboriginal convicted for the same offence. The median aggregate sentence length for all offences for Aboriginals is 2 years, versus 3 years and 6 months for non-Aboriginals.
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These startling figures, as shown in the table below, validate the public perception that judges are soft on Aboriginal criminals.
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http://www.australian-news.com.au/abosentence.htm
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SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:
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REFORMS introduced after the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody have not worked, the outgoing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, has said.
Mr Calma, who presented his final reports yesterday after a five-year term, said a new approach was urgently needed to release indigenous people from ''the cycle of crime and escalating imprisonment rates''.
Presenting his Social Justice and Native Title reports, Mr Calma said the overrepresentation of Aborigines in the criminal justice system was one of the most serious, unresolved issues.
There was also the threatened extinction of the 100 indigenous languages that still existed within 10 to 30 years, and the issue of resourcing ''homeland communities''.
Mr Calma said nationally, indigenous adults were 13 times more likely to be imprisoned than their non-indigenous counterparts and indigenous juveniles were 28 times more likely to be put in detention.
During his term, there had been two ''devastating'' examples of what could happen to an indigenous person in custody, one being the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee at Palm Island in Queensland, the other the death of an Aboriginal man in a West Australian prison van.
He said the new policy he was proposing was ''justice reinvestment'', which was diversion of a portion of funds spent in imprisonment to local communities with a high concentration of offenders.
''The monies that would have been spent on imprisonment are reinvested in programs and services in communities where these issues are more acute in order to address the underlying causes of crime,'' he said.
''Here in Australia, increasing amounts of public monies are spent on imprisonment, for minimum positive long-term return. Internationally, where justice reinvestment is being implemented, particularly in the the United Kingdom and United States, imprisonment rates are dropping.
''For example, in Oregon in the United States, money was reinvested in well-resources restorative justice and community service programs for juvenile offenders. This resulted in a 72 per cent drop in juvenile incarceration rates.''
He said an individual could, at present, be put through the best-resourced, most effective rehabilitation program, and go back to an under-resourced community, which would undo what he or she might have gained.
The justice reinvestment model retained prison as an ultimate measure but there was a shift of resources to the community, which could work on stopping the offences occurring.
If a figure of $200,000 a year to keep a youth in the juvenile justice system was correct, it did not take much to work out the savings and potential funds for investment in preventing incarceration, he said.
''We need to identify the communities that are in most need and address issues such as lack of activity for youth and making sure the school system is appropriate and a whole lot of really educative programs,'' Mr Calma said.
The communities most in need had to be identified and an integrated program developed, not the piecemeal approach adopted by some policy officers with ''a bucket of money'' picking and choosing where they spent it.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/indigenous-crime-action-a-failure-says-justice-leader-20100122-mqor.html
ADELAIDE NOW:
THREE members of an Aboriginal crime gang had the tables turned on them when they tried to steal a man's car during a crime spree in the northern suburbs overnight.
The trio threatened a man with a baseball bat in the carpark of the Midway Tavern, Elizabeth Downs about 2am.
The man grabbed the baseball bat then fought back, hitting them with their own weapon.
The three men ran from the scene, with the police dog squad tracking one of them down shortly afterwards.
The man, a 19-year-old from Smithfield Plains, was charged with aggravated robbery, property damage and theft. He will appear in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court today.
Two of his alleged accomplices are still on the run, and police have warned the public not to approach them, but call Triple 000 or police assistance line on 131 444 if they come across the pair.
The crime spree started just before midnight when three men broke into the Reservoir Hotel on Hamilton Tce, Newton.
It's alleged they threatened staff before stealing alcohol, leaving the scene at high speed in a black 1992 Nissan Skyline, registration XMW-230.
A police patrol spotted the Nissan and pursued it along Portrush Rd towards Magill Rd, until the chase was stopped because of the high speeds.
About 12.10am another police patrol saw the Nissan and pursued it along Main North Rd, Blair Athol, but also terminated the chase because of the high speeds reached.
Then about 12.45am the three men allegedly threatened a 20-year-old man with baseball bats as he sat in his car in the drive-through of the McDonalds on Main North Rd, Smithfield.
They stole his blue 2005 Subaru WRX, which was found dumped in Uley Rd, Craigmore, a short time later.
The two men police are still looking for are described as Aboriginal in appearance.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/man-fights-back-against-aboriginal-crime-gang/story-e6frea83-1225808469624

POLICE across Australia are far more likely to arrest young Aborigines and see that they go to court than non-indigenous juveniles, who are considerably more likely to be let off with a warning or caution.
A groundbreaking study by the Australian Institute of Criminology to be published today paints a disturbing picture of young Aborigines' contact with police. It may go some way to explaining why indigenous 10 to 17-year-olds are 28 times more likely to be in detention than non-indigenous youths.

Pulling together for the first time comparative national data on young people's contact with police and the courts, the AIC report reveals the differential treatment of indigenous children doesn't stop at the front gate of the juvenile justice system.

In at least two states, Western Australia and South Australia, young Aborigines are more likely to be convicted in children's courts than non-indigenous juveniles for the same type of offences, the report shows. No other states provided data on conviction rates.

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In Western Australia, the one state that issued statistics on sentencing, young Aborigines are more than twice as likely as non-indigenous juveniles to be given a jail term after being found guilty.

The AIC study, "Juveniles' contact with the criminal justice system in Australia", finds that in NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, police are more likely to arrest and refer to court young Aborigines, compared with non-indigenous youths. Information from Victoria and Tasmania was not available.

"(In NSW in 2007-08), 48 per cent of indigenous juveniles were transferred to court, compared to 21 per cent of non-indigenous juveniles," the report says.

"And 32 per cent of non-indigenous juveniles receive warnings compared with 18 per cent of indigenous juveniles.

"(In Queensland in 2006-07), indigenous juveniles were more likely to be processed by way of arrest (39 per cent) than any other method, while non-indigenous juveniles were more likely to be dealt with via a caution (49 per cent) than any other method of processing."

In Western Australia, where half of all juveniles arrested are Aboriginal, 71 per cent of the cautions issued in 2005 were to non-indigenous youths, 29 per cent to Aboriginal juveniles.

In South Australia in 2005 (the most recent data available), 55 per cent of juveniles of "Aboriginal appearance" were transferred to youth court compared with 41 per cent of those of "non-Aboriginal appearance", while in the Northern Territory last year 23 per cent of non-indigenous youths received a caution compared with 16 per cent of Aborigines.

AIC director Adam Tomison said the fact that many young indigenous Australians lived in disadvantaged circumstances went a long way to explaining their increased contact with police.

"In terms of whether there is bias or racism in their treatment, I think you would need to do further studies looking at police contact in disadvantaged communities where there are kids of different backgrounds," Dr Tomison told The Australian.

"Then we would start to tease out how much of this is an issue of Aboriginality and how much is poverty and disadvantage.

"Also geography comes into play. Authorities in states with more remote communities have fewer options to divert juveniles from detention. If there are two young offenders, and one is from a relatively good home in an urban environment with plenty of treatment options around him and the other is from a remote location where similar options are extremely limited, who is more likely to be put in detention?"

The report notes that once indigenous juveniles reach children's courts, data is harder to come by, as indigenous status is not reported in most states. Only WA and South Australia provided figures on indigenous outcomes in court.

"(While they) cannot be considered representative of the other jurisdictions or of Australia's children's courts generally, they nonetheless provide an important, albeit partial, insight into the contact that indigenous juveniles have with the children's courts," the report says.

"(In South Australia), 29 per cent of juveniles of 'Aboriginal appearance' were found guilty of charges of larceny and receiving offences, 21 per cent of offences against good order and 20 per cent of criminal trespass. This compares with 18 per cent of juveniles of non-Aboriginal appearance found guilty of larceny and receiving, 17 per cent of offences against good order and 12per cent of criminal trespass."

WA's data from 2005 also shows discrepancies between the conviction rate for indigenous and non-indigenous youth.

"Eighty-two per cent of indigenous males were found guilty compared with 76 per cent of non-indigenous males before the children's court," the report says. "For female juveniles, this disparity was even more pronounced, with 79 per cent of indigenous females found guilty compared with 66 per cent of non-indigenous females."

If convicted, jail was a more likely outcome for Aboriginal youths. "A considerably higher proportion of distinct indigenous juveniles (22 per cent) were sentenced to custodial penalties than non-indigenous juveniles (9 per cent) during 2005," the AIC found. "Conversely, a considerably higher proportion of distinct non-indigenous juveniles (35 per cent) received a fine than distinct indigenous juveniles."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/police-treatment-of-juveniles-influenced-by-colour/story-e6frg97x-1225780235794