{"id":259068,"date":"2025-07-30T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259068"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:04:13","slug":"from-bourke-st-to-covid-19-the-collapse-of-faith-in-the-victoria-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259068","title":{"rendered":"From Bourke St to Covid-19: The collapse of faith in the Victoria Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ten years ago, Victoria Police was lavishing praise from the public \u2014 but experts knew a storm was brewing. With confidence in the police now at a record low, here\u2019s what they say needs to happen to get the force back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public confidence was erroded over 3 key incidents the largest being covid excessive force being used on innocent people. The harassment of people taking a walk, the arresting of a woman in Ballarat and the harassment of elderly people was simply unacceptable actions from a bygone era in eastern europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other major issue is the handling of the Daniel and Catherine Andrews Bike Boy incident<\/a>. People have always suspected corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us not forget or ignore the unbelievable situation and series of events surrounding Lawyer X, suspected systemic corruption with and surrounding the Victoria Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us not forget or ignore the unbelievable situation and series of events surrounding Lawyer X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":228235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,5969,1],"tags":[993,8,12537],"class_list":["post-259068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-police","category-uncategorized","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-victoria-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259069,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259068\/revisions\/259069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}