Corruption in Victoria Police remains despite attempts by Commissioner Christine Nixon to tackle allegations of a disturbing culture of entrenched thuggery, drug related crime, violence, database abuse - it's insecurity, witness tampering and murder [see Ceja report], substance abuse, evidence theft and tampering, Gangland links to killings, | Wiki outline | and worse, all under the protection of the omnipotent Police Association and it's secretary - renowned bully, Paul Mullett.

Commissioner Nixon was indeed correct to support the actions of The Office of Police Integrity - OPI - | Wiki | [ HTML ] and the employment of Ceja taskforce - Final report here in PDF. Yet Victorians received mixed messages. Stop the corruption Commissioner. Stand by your officers, Commissioner. Ceja officers reported concerns over handling of information, threats [2] and secret investigations due to fellow officers and finally, being bullied out of a career by Paul Mullett - who opposed every appointment post Ceja duties.

OPI itself made spectacular blunders leading to calls from the Police Association to close it down. Round one of OPI vs MMM [ Mullett Micro Mindset ] was a definite victory for corruption. Victorians swallowed this without so much as a ripple, helped along by misinformation spread by The Pulp and Print Court and Victim of Crime Advocacy groups - The victim makers. The Victorian community deserves - and pays for - better.

We touch base with the visionary ideas Christine Nixon has of more sophisticated training for officers, and the fact this may be the best fashion in which to remove such a culture. Officers simply lack the skills to access, exploit and apply the vast realms of data we have collated on today's recidivists for the past 20 years.

Most are significantly marginalised with a plethora of co-morbid health issues. Unable to solve crime via intelligent means, Police fall back on exactly the same behaviour they claim to be protecting Victorians from. And we remind ourselves that most community members convicted and sentenced have a legitimate mental illness - at vast cost to our community.

We visit the issues of security problems behind ID theft at MySpace during Interactive News and touch on the minimum security options for Windows users.

A reading from the good book - The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins - today touches on Lennons song, Imagine, and the fact U.S. Creationists have hijacked his work, replacing with no religion too, with the words, with one religion too. We shoot that one down on the spot.

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