The crime rate has not changed one iota in the past decade — but with youth gangs, the raging tobacco war, relaxed bail laws and police pay disputes, Victorians do not feel safe.
Police officers across Victoria have said they’re at “breaking point” as they try to protect the public while fending off violent protesters and constantly chasing down the worst repeat offenders.
A driver has been charged after two cars collided in a horrifying crash in Deer Park, that has left a baby girl fighting for her life in hospital.
The head of Victoria’s police union says officers feel like they are “drowning” having to repeatedly chase down the same teen offenders, his comments coming after a 17-year-old charged with 57 offences while on bail was again released into the community.
Accused former Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash was excused from a court hearing after appearing to be distressed while on a video link from a Melbourne jail.
The jury in the trial of accused high country killer Greg Lynn has been selected, after the first jury was discharged minutes before opening arguments were due to start.
The Jaanz International Singing Academy has announced its closure days after its founder, David Jaanz, was sentenced for sexually assaulting a young former student.
Melbourne’s suburban shopping centres and train stations are becoming knife crime “hotspots”, involving teens as young as 13, with 30 blade crimes in one year at just three locations.
Australian authorities are being forced to comb through massive industrial imports arriving from Europe for stashes of the illegal party drug ketamine — and one country has emerged as a hotspot for supply.
A judge has found Victoria Police used “unjustified violence” to make arrests during a Covid lockdown rally, in which protesters were thrown to the ground and one man was left with a dislocated arm.
A Morwell man with a shocking driving history has been jailed after he fled the scene of a crash while a dying woman lay trapped in her car.
Two tobacco shops were suspiciously razed by fire early on Saturday morning, onlookers convinced the blazes are linked to the ongoing Melbourne tobacco war.
A driver who blamed her Tesla for failing to brake on “autopilot” when she crashed into a nurse has been jailed.
A Pakistani man faces deportation over pressuring an associate to make false court statements while he was on remand for bashing a woman.
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