NSW Police were worried academics engaged to help review suspected gay-hate murders could be bias if they were 'connected to the gay community', an inquiry hears.
Copy linkNSW Police believed a "key challenge" of finding researchers to help with a landmark review of dozens of suspected gay hate deaths was that academics "connected to the gay community" may lack independence, an inquiry has heard.
Under the strike force, detectives reviewed 88 cases within that period to determine whether bias was involved, while a team of academics from Flinders University reviewed their methodology and process and also weighed in. The inquiry saw a police request for quotation from August 2016, after a series of emails explored which researchers could be used.
"Many researchers in this area are connected to the 'gay community' and may not be as independent as desirable."
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