

Former top cops' plan for 'lawless' Vic

In the wake of the Bourke Street rampage, prison breakouts and a youth crime wave, a group of Victoria's former top cops have a plan for a lawless Victoria.
Former chief commissioner Kel Glare, who ran the force from 1987-92, has joined with other former police chiefs to slam the state's response to the law and order "crisis".
Mr Glare's group, called the Community Advocacy Alliance, says modern policing is clearly not working.
"We're being dismissed as dinosaurs that don't understand modern policing. But modern policing has got us to this point," Mr Glare told 3AW on Sunday.
The group says policing in Victoria has become "risk averse" and chases need to happen.
"In my view, in most instances, you have to chase," Mr Glare told 3AW on Sunday.
"There will be accidents and the community and the police will just have to accept that"

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Mr Glare also says the Andrews government's new night courts won't work as, in many cases, it's the magistrates who make the "bad bail decisions".
The CAA has a 70 point plan, advocating for a police education program to be reintroduced to schools, police cars beefed up with nudge bars and a re-evaluation of juvenile offenders.
"The crime rate in all the other states is going down and Victoria is going up - and most of that is being led by this rash of juvenile offending, Mr Glare said.
"These are young people but they're hardly juveniles and the definition of child needs to be amended."
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