Of course this importation of crime has been going on for years and been continually denied by LW progs and the PC Brigade.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/migrant-groups-going-gang-busters/...


      
LAST week in the Melbourne Magistrates Court, a man alleged to be the "Mr Big" behind a large ecstasy haul was committed to face trial in a case that provides a fascinating insight into the changing face of organised crime in Australia.

Magistrate Simon Garnett ruled there was sufficient evidence for a jury to convict Griffith businessman Pasquale Barbaro on six charges, over the seizure of 15 million tablets of ecstasy, weighing 4.4 tonnes and with a street value of more than $440 million, found in tins of tomatoes imported from Italy in 2007. Barbaro is defending the charges.

Apart from the quantity of drugs - which allegedly also included 150kg of cocaine in a later shipment - the most intriguing feature of the case is the list of co-conspirators facing trial. They include people from a range of ethnic backgrounds.

Veteran investigators have observed a significant shift; the boundaries between formerly rival crime groups have dissolved, replaced by a new web of constantly changing alliances. Where once ethnically based crime groups - be they Italian, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern or predominantly Anglo-Saxon bikie gangs - operated independently, today they work hand in hand.

"Organised crime has certainly evolved beyond ethnicity. It's a much more complex problem [now] than an ethnically based one," former assistant commissioner and head of NSW Police crime squads Clive Small says.

Old cultural loyalties no longer apply. "It's strictly business," says Detective Superintendent Deb Wallace, who heads the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad in the NSW Police.

The shift challenges the traditional methods of defining and investigating organised crime. Small poses this hypothetical: "We have a Vietnamese importer selling to bikies who are made up of Middle Eastern crime figures, Caucasians, Calabrians, and they're dealing with firearms, drugs and murder. What squad investigates that?"

Since the 1970s and 80s, ethnic crime waves have come and gone.

In the 70s Italian organised crime erupted in the public spotlight with the murder of anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay in Griffith, NSW, and the Woodward royal commission. In the 80s Vietnamese gangs terrorised their own community for a decade before their members were killed, arrested, grew up or moved on to more sophisticated types of crime.

These days the focus of attention is Middle Eastern crime, principally in southwestern Sydney.

In each case, police say it is not the groups' ethnicity but their propensity for violence that has put them on the radar.

"We don't target the Middle Eastern community, we target criminals in that community, especially if they are using violence," Wallace says. "There are many other groups who are more sophisticated and established, like the triads, who are not committing violence. It's the same all over the world - Israeli crime, Russian crime - there are all sorts of groups that don't come to notice and that's because they're not on the streets shooting each other."

The Middle Eastern crime wave broke on the streets of Sydney in the 90s as rival Lebanese gangs involved in drug dealing, extortion, car theft and re-birthing grew out of control.

Like the Asian gangs of the 80s, Lebanese crime "reflected migration trends" of the day, Wallace says. "The Middle Eastern community is exactly like the Asian community. The majority are fantastic, hardworking, passionate. It's the few criminals within that group [that put] the focus on the whole community."

Also like the Vietnamese gangs, Lebanese crime sprang up among a community of mostly refugees from a war-ravaged society whose citizens had lost faith in police, government and the law.

The Lebanese refugees who fled to Australia were mostly peasants and labourers, with poor education and little or no English. They retained strong ties to their homeland, where many had family, owned property and could still vote, leaving them less inclined to consider Australia home.

Michael Humphrey from the department of sociology at the University of Sydney says the issues in the community were exacerbated by a "culture of masculinity". "Middle Eastern cultures are very patriarchal and masculine, [based on] the idea of being strong men. There is a theory that men become weak in migration, diminished, with less power and less control over their women. This leads to a loss of masculinity, authority and control." As a result, "violence can be an act of self liberation, the remaking of the self".

In 2003 police set up Task Force Gain to investigate Middle Eastern gang crime. In a year it made 1069 arrests, laid 2384 charges and seized drugs worth $3.5m. The taskforce was taken over by MEOCS in 2006.

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Similar concerns were voiced in South Australia in 2008, when deputy police commissioner Gary Burns said his force faced "an emerging, probably contemporary, policing issue",

with 450 offences having been committed by 93 members of a Sudanese community numbering 1500 in the space of 16 months

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Criminologists say that, like previous ethnic crime spikes, this one reflects a systemic lack of social, economic and logistical support for vulnerable new arrivals.

"If we're going to take migrants from diverse backgrounds we have a moral obligation to support them as much as possible," says Paul Wilson, head of criminology at Bond University.

Amid the claims and counter-claims about crime and multiculturalism, police report a success story at Blacktown in western Sydney, an ethnically diverse community with 180 nationalities, including about 2000 Sudanese.

Superintendent Mark Wright, the local area commander, says there is no crime problem among the local Sudanese. Reports of gangs forming turned out to be simply groups of young men hanging out in public, conspicuous because they are tall, black, physically imposing and often loud.

Wright says Blacktown has avoided the problems experienced elsewhere by forging strong relationships with community leaders, and working with local business and charities to deliver employment opportunities, training, sports and social programs for the new arrivals.

"My focus has always been on helping them integrate," Wright says. "Our focus is to not isolate them through the programs we deliver because I think it sends the wrong message. They hear from us regularly that it's not a racial problem, it's not cultural, it's about youth issues and integrating into the community."

The keys, he says, are mutual respect and joint responsibility. "You've got to be open with people and say:

'You're welcome here, but you've got to make an effort to fit in as well.'

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So far, it seems to be working.

Its time wrote on Dec 29^th, 2017 at 6:40am:

By yourself?

Extra coloured barriers and bollards are now in place for new years festivities, along with the cops and their brand new shiny machineguns the fireworks should all go according to plan.

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Mattyfisk wrote on Dec 29^th, 2017 at 4:35pm:

Don’t go giving us your boring sex life!

poo happens and then femo Nazis cry forever: yeh, we all fn know the drill mate!