What's missing here is the 'rachet effect'. Once something like this happens, it puts police and anyone in the front line on guard all the time. Just think how the police will react if a young muslim youth now walks in to that station. For any reason. He's a bomb waiting to go off until proven otherwise.
Its a rachet effect because there is no going back to the way it was, trust and respect is gone. Laws cannot reverse anything.
Gillard in particular lowered standards so much. No respect, no trust, name-calling for political gain. It happened gradually, but it certainly happened. We now have more and more laws trying to control human nature, almost a police state. If you doubt that just go to the US for a few weeks and talk to a few citizens there. "well we wouldn't tolerate that" is the standard reaction.
The EPA officer shot dead recently has gone from the headlines but if you think that it has all returned to cups of tea and chat, think again.
