{"id":355649,"date":"2026-01-26T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=355649"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:30:09","slug":"victoria-police-appeal-for-jogger-in-park-slur-sparks-crime-priority-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=355649","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Police Appeal for Jogger in Park Slur Sparks Crime Priority Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On January 2 in JJ Holland Park, Kensington, a man in his 50s with a shaved head shouted &#8216;All you poofters need to get the f**k out of Kensington&#8217; at JOY FM newsreader Brad Cresswell and his group, calling them perverts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=victoria-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Victoria Police\">Victoria Police<\/a> released CCTV and called it a prejudice-motivated offence against the LGBTQIA+ community, urging tips to Crime Stoppers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics online, including Tommy Robinson and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=craig-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Craig Kelly\">Craig Kelly<\/a>, slammed the focus, pointing to record crime like a 12.3% rise in incidents to 483,313 last year, exploding machete attacks up fourfold, and daily weapon seizures averaging 44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police insist they probe all reports and won&#8217;t tolerate hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Police released CCTV and called it a prejudice-motivated offence against the LGBTQIA+ community, urging tips to Crime Stoppers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":355655,"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":[273,35,6407],"tags":[14576,993,8,12537],"class_list":["post-355649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-police-incident","tag-craig-kelly","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria","tag-victoria-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355649","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355656,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355649\/revisions\/355656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}