Data analysis by 7.30 reveals Queensland Police shot more people last year than police in the rest of Australia combined. abc730
Data analysis by 7.30 reveals Queensland Police shot more people last year than police in the rest of Australia combined.In 2022-23, Queensland police shot 14 people, New South Wales police shot eight, one person was shot in Victoria, one in South Australia, and two in Western Australia.Queensland had the majority of police shootings in 2022 and 2023.
In these freeze frames, Luke can be seen moving towards the two police officers as they have their guns drawn and are moving backwards. The gunshots ring out as the camera is shifted downwards.Across the street, a partygoer has his camera turned on himself as Luke is shot dead. Luke's parents say their son had battled poor mental health in the past but had since been doing well."But you know, they never used the taser. They brought tasers in so they wouldn't have to use a gun in a situation like that. And they didn't use it."
For 40 years, Melbourne crime journalist at The Age John Silvester has reported on Victoria Police's reckoning with firearms, where there's been just one non-fatal shooting in the past two years. The project was highly successful in the years that followed, but by the mid-2000s, the number of shootings again increased, and training protocols were once again re-visited.
"The Victorian Coroner who investigated 11 of these fatal shootings said [police] had developed a 'culture of the gun', as he called it, where police officers exposed themselves to dangers that they shouldn't have if they were using only proportionate and minimum force.
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