Posts on space for law enforcement officers belittle victims and imply Queensland police avoid responding to DV incidents
Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAPPhotograph: Dave Hunt/AAPQueensland police are investigating social media posts on a private Facebook group for law enforcement personnel that belittled domestic violence victims and implied officers purposefully avoid responding to such incidents.
A Queensland member of the group uploaded a photo ranking domestic violence allegations from “dogshit” or “very poor quality” to “bullshit” or “not true” and “batshit – insane”. A spokesperson at the Queensland Police Service said the force’s Ethical Standards Command had “registered a complaint relating to the reported social media posts and the complaint is being assessed.”The QPS spokesperson said members may be subjected to “disciplinary action for improper use of social media such as publishing inappropriate content online.”
He also alleged he’d heard colleagues claim some victims “deserved to be raped”, are “too ugly to be raped”, that “domestic violence is just foreplay” and rape is “surprise sex”.police officer told a colleague that police did not investigate the suspicious death of a domestic violence victim because she and her husband were “a pair of scumbags who live in a shit area in a shit house”.
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