O'Farrell drags the chain on cops

I dunno WTF it's going to take for that stupid bloody Barry O'Farrell (NSW Premier) to actually get it into his thick fuckin head. The NSW public (you know, the ones who pay the wages of both the premier and the cops) don't want the police to investigate themselves when there's a complaint.  There should be an independent body set up that does that. It's not fuckin rocket science. We are sick to death of the cops behaving like thugs, injuring and killing people, and nothing can be done because their internal investigation makes them all come up smelling like bloody roses. 

We don't want to hear any bullshit about not wanting to expand gov or crap like that, bla bla the budget and all. We are a fuckin rich country with little debt (despite the voices of doom from the Abbott brigade). We can afford to have a police force that are not a law unto themselves.

O'Farrell has announced an investigation into police conduct. Fuck! An investigation  FFS! Surely the police actions, plastered all over the media not only here but overseas (in the case of Curti from Brazil) are evidence enough? WTF do you need to bloody investigate? Read the fuckin coroners report on Curti; that alone should be enough to stop the cops investigating themselves. O'Farrell has the nerve to come out with this crap:

“The NSW government believes it’s important police continue to investigate critical incidents because they have the unique skills and expertise to look into these matters,” O’Farrell said. more

OMFG. "Unique skills"? "Expertise"? How the hell could he say that with a straight face? The only unique skills the NSW police have is to give a very unique version of events, including cases where people have been injured or died. Yeah, fuckin experts at that.

Well on the positive side, the wheels are sort of slowly moving. Perhaps our screaming anger from the streets have actually pierced the echelons of power up in that rarified atmosphere of the NSW parliament. This is the result so far under the current system:

The PIC’s Operation Calyx recommended that criminal charges should be considered against four NSW police officers in relation to the fatal 2009 shooting of a mentally ill Sydney man, Adam Salter.

An Ombudsman investigation recommended the consideration of charges against officers involved in the death of Brazilian student Laudisio-Curti, who died after being tased multiple times in Sydney’s CBD last March while in a panicked state after taking a small amount of LSD. more

Criminal charges should be "considered"? Considered?  WTF? That's it? And where are the cops now who, for example, were involved in the Curti death? Last I heard one of them had been promoted by the time the case got to the coroners court.

Seriously, that's just not good enough. Seriously, we're talking about people's lives here.....  Perhaps the only sane voice in all of this is coming from the public, in this case from the gay community and the Greens:

Greens MLC David Shoebridge, who has long campaigned for a review into how police investigate critical incidents and complaints, said the current system did not work and that there was widespread dissatisfaction amongst the public. 

“The failings are most obvious in the police handling of critical incidents where flawed internal investigations consistently vindicate police actions, even in the face of substantial evidence to the contrary,” Shoebridge said. 

“The flaws of the system were recently highlighted following the deaths of Adam Salter and Roberto Curti with subsequent investigations demonstrating the inherent flaws of a system where police investigate police.” 

The Star Observer understands that more than 100 complaints about police behaviour at this year’s Mardi Gras have been made. It is believed that none of the officers involved in either of the two Mardi Gras incidents under investigation by the Professional Standards Command are yet to be questioned. more

Fuck! Not even questioned about it yet? OMFG............