NIT: Aboriginal children routinely over-policed under NSW bail checks, legal group says

An 11-year-old Aboriginal boy on bail was subjected to more than 100 police checks over a seven-month period, in what a legal group says is evidence of “discriminatory patterns” in NSW policing.

An expert report commissioner by the Justice and Equity Centre (JEC) revealed NSW Police disproportionately target Aboriginal children and young people through ‘bail compliance checks’.

The report, prepared by academics Don Weatherburn and Anna Ferrante and based on data from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, found Indigenous young people were 11.7 per cent more likely to be checked by police than their non-Indigenous peers in the first 30 days of bail.