@JCoure; two of my nephews work for Victoria Police in Melbourne and are at odds with your belief that they've been instructed to 'go soft' on crime.
What's different today is that Murdoch Mouthpieces are running a deeply fascist, racist and hate-filled campaign against African immigrants and against Muslims as a smokescreen to divert attention away from corporate corruption.
They're over-representation of reports about crime involving Muslims and Africans is off the scale as they grossly under-report about white collar and corporate crime.