A lot of people are ‘known to police’. It’s a meaningless phrase.
If they have completed any sentence handed down to them for precious offending, what are the cops supposed to do?
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My understanding is this is a very broad term which indicates one’s presence on the police database as having had contact with police, anything from being a recidivist criminal to a victim of crime or witness.
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Sky News were frothing at the mouth to talk about immigration when the Bondi attack happened, before it came out that the perpetrator was white.
I can only imagine how they’ll react to an Assyrian Orthodox church stabbing.
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“It’s the labor party war against Christians”
ABC reports that the teenager accused of committing the attack has previously been charged with knife offences and was on a good behaviour bond.
Wasn’t Paul Murray live at the time that the news broke?
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“Known to police” is a pretty useless statement especially in this context.
For example, I am considered “known to police” in Victoria, after being a witness to an incident a few years ago and providing them a statement.
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More unsettling news stories that have just emerged today 
Alleged mushroom drink poisoning at a Victorian health retreat.
Armed gangs at a shopping centre in Melbourne’s northwest waving knives and machetes and forcing families to flee.
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