NSW police are being accused of “systemic discrimination” as new data shows officers use their discretionary drug diversion powers on Indigenous people at far lower rates than the wider population.
The state’s peak Aboriginal legal service says it flies in the face of the state government’s Closing the Gap commitments.
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