Racial profiling data 2025 update: What does it say?

Join us to unpack the latest findings from the Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project on Victoria Police's use of force against racialised communities. 

The data, publicly available on the Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project website clearly demonstrates that Victoria police continue to engage in racial profiling despite its 2015 ban. This latest set of findings provides an update to last year's launch of Victoria Police's search rates, showing similar patterns of disproportionate police targeting of people they perceive to be First Nations, African, Middle Eastern and Pasifika.

This event will feature a panel discussion with a group of experts breaking down the dataset, its implications, and the impact of police racial profiling on different communities. Come along to learn more about police racial profiling, community-driven anti-racism initiatives, and the power and pitfalls of 'proving' racism with police data.

• Dr Tamar Hopkins, Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project

• Idil Ali, Community organiser

• Dr Tasnim Sammak, 

• Lauren Caulfield, Beyond Survival, a project of Flat Out

• Bee Charika, Rising Red Lantern/Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advocacy Group, Vixen Workers

• Yusuf Mohamud, QM Lawyers

• Sabrina Adem, Community organiser

The Racial Profiling Data Monitoring Project is an experimental anti-racism data transparency project established in 2024. The aim of this Project is to monitor Victoria Police’s compliance with its 2015 ban on racial profiling and the Chief Commissioner’s promise in 2023 to undo the inter-generational harm of post-invasion policing through ‘address[ing] systemic racism, unconscious bias or unequal use of discretionary powers in outcomes’ (Yoorrook Justice Commission, Transcript, 8 May 2023, p.496-497).

*Image taken by Charandev Singh