{"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

On January 2 in JJ Holland Park, Kensington, a man in his 50s with a shaved head shouted ‘All you poofters need to get the f**k out of Kensington’ at JOY FM newsreader Brad Cresswell and his group, calling them perverts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Critics online, including Tommy Robinson and 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

Police insist they probe all reports and won’t tolerate hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t