Yeahhh, as someone studying Criminology and Policing, it's no-where near as bad as you think. As I've explained time and time again, the prosecution of the Sergeant who exposed the brutality on the Gold Coast, was not because he brought the brutality to the media.

Even if the video he brought to the media was of CCTV inside the station of the watchhouse officers eating doughnuts, he still would have been charged for distributing police property, and not going to his supervisor about the brutality first. (Let's not just assume his Supervisor is crooked as American redditors would have you believe).

The bashing of the Youth Worker, also appears to be pretty legitimate. But then again, no-one has seen the full CCTV footage from start to finish, nor what was said. Channel 9 (fucking grubs) will do anything they can to start a Public vs Police culture in Australia to make big $$ like FOX and CNN in the USA who are making a huge amount of money off the current USA Police Brutality focus. However, it does look like one officer there went rogue, if it's legit, he'll be reprimanded, believe it or not Internal Affairs and the CCC in the QPS fucks you over (after the Fitzgerald inquiry) if you screw up.

So, let's not "take back our police service." There's currently nothing too take back. There's been one case of force, which may or may not be excessive at this point, however it may look to be that way. The second is a matter in which a Sergeant distributed Police Property to the media (not the actual content). That incident occurred in 2012... So all in all, two incidents highlighted by the media, over a period of three years, out of the hundreds of thousands of incidents you didn't hear about between 2012-2015 because they all went without a hitch.

Enough is Enough, damn right, sick of people going all 'Murica, saying our Aussie cops can't do their job.