Zero tolerance policing : implications for indigenous people : paper prepared for the Law and Justice Section of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission / Chris Cunneen
What is zero tolerance policing? -- The experience of New York City -- What can be learnt from the New York City example? -- The criminological critique of zero tolerance policing -- Who is promoting zero tolerance policing in Australia? -- Zero tolerance policing and the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody -- Failure to comply with International Standards -- Conclusion: the impact on indigenous people
Summary
"ATSIC commissioned Chris Cuneen of the Institute of Criminology at Sydney University Law School to study the implications of ZTP would have for Indigenous people. His report, published in February 1999, concluded that ZTP would lead to a further rapid increase in the jailing of Aboriginal people for trivial offences and would be in breach of 19 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
