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Criminal activity in New South Wales, Australia is combated by the New South Wales Police Force and the New South Wales court system, while statistics about crime are managed by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Modern Australian states and cities, including New South Wales, have some of the lowest crime rates recorded globally with Australia ranked the 13th safest nation and Sydney ranked the 5th safest city globally. As of September 2018 the City of Sydney had the highest rate of violent crime per 100,000 people (1445.1), followed by City of Penrith (475.7) and City of Blacktown (495.1). Rural areas have comparatively high crime rates per 100,000 with rural shires such as Walgett Shire (1350.3) and Moree Plains Shire (1236.2) having some of the highest violent crime rates in the state. The overall NSW crime rate has been in steady decline for many years.^[1][2][3][4]

Information about crime in Casino, NSW, Australia. Shows how much people think the problem in their community are property crimes (home broken, car theft, etc.), violent crimes (being mugged or robbed, being attacked or insulted), corruption and other crimes.

New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony. The founding members of the colony included a significant number of criminals, known as convicts, there were 778 convicts (192 women and 586 men) on the First Fleet.^[5] The majority of convicts were transported for petty crimes. More serious crimes, such as rape and murder, became transportable offences in the 1830s, but since they were also punishable by death, comparatively few convicts were transported for such crimes.^[6] Common Crimes in the colony were drunkenness, assault, and disorderly prostitution. bushranging and absconding were also common, while the murder rate was low. The rate of conviction for less serious offenses gradually declined. Execution was used as punishment, though the rate of execution was low.^[7]

NSW crime statistics[edit]

Crime in New South Wales(overall number of offences)^[8]

Type	2018
Homicide and related offences	72
Assault and related offences	65,460
Sexual offenses	9,847
Robbery	2,602
Burglary/Break and enter	21,498
Theft	132,202

Detected by the Police) and accessed via the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (1997b); 2. Data from an inner-city Sydney study of assaults and robberies for 1995196 (see NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, l 997a) 3. Newspaper articles reporting on crime as it relates to the casino and other sectors of the gambling industry; 4. An increase in alcohol-related, non-domestic assaults in Pyrmont in NSW police figures in June 2015 was attributed to a jump in the number of assaults at the casino since the introduction of the.

All types of crime rates showed medium-strength positive correlations with rates of clients using Gambler's Help services, whereas property crime rate was the only crime variable strongly correlated with rate of calls to Gambler's Helpline (see Table 1). WHILE most of the Northern Rivers has a decreasing crime rate, the Richmond Valley Council area is experiencing a huge spike in property crime. Statistics for 2010 released by the NSW Bureau of.

New South Wales crime statistics[edit]

The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) is the main source of NSW crime statistics. In 2017 BOCSAR reported an overall drop in recorded incidence with the murder rate (down 12.1%), robbery (down 8.0%), armed robbery (down 13.4%), burglary (Down 5.5%), motor vehicle theft (Down 3.2%) and malicious damage to property (Down 3.6%). There was an increase in the rate of Sexual assault (up 3.5%) and sexual offences (up 3.7%).^[9]

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Massacres of Aboriginal Australians[edit]

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Though often not recorded as crimes at the time, numerous crimes were perpetrated against Aboriginal Australians in New South Wales throughout the colonial period. Among the most heinous of these crimes were massacres. The following list tallies the better documented massacres of Aboriginal Australians in New South Wales. The information provided below is based on ongoing research 'Violence on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1788–1960' undertaken by the Australian Research Council.^[10][11]

• 1816Appin massacre – Governor Macquarie sent soldiers against the Gundungurra and Dharawal people on their lands along the Cataract River, a tributary of the Nepean River (south of Sydney). the soldiers used their horses to force men, women and children to fall from the cliffs of the gorge, to their deaths below. They counted 14 bodies 'in different directions including that of an old man, women and children. The bodies of two warriors, Durelle and Cannabayagal were hauled up to the highest point of the range of hills on Lachlan Vale and strung up in trees.^[12][13][14]
• 1836Mount Dispersion massacre by a party led by Thomas Mitchell – A massacre of Aboriginal people along the Murray River at a place Mitchell afterwards called Mount Dispersion. Mitchell and his surveying party were followed by a group of around 150 Aboriginal Australians, until the surveyors laid an ambush, firing on the group as they fled across the river. At least seven people were killed, and likely more.^[15] A government inquiry was organised into the massacre after Mitchell published his account of the incident, but little came of it.^[16][17]
• 1838Waterloo Creek massacre – Also known as the Australia Day massacre. A New South Wales Mounted Police detachment, despatched by acting Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass, attacked an encampment of Kamilaroi people at a place called Waterloo Creek in remote bushland. Various witnesses accounts reported between 50 and 300 killed. Later in November the same year, Charles Eyles, William Allen and James Dunn (employees of Gwydir River squatter Robert Crawford) shot dead nine Gamilaraay people just east of present-day Moree.^[18]
• 1838Myall Creek massacre at Myall Creek, involved the brutal killing of at least twenty-eight unarmed Kamilaroi people by eleven colonists on 10 June 1838.^[19][20] After two trials, seven of the eleven colonists were found guilty of murder and hanged.^[20]
• 1841 The Rufus River massacre – The massacre was led by the Protector of Aborigines, Matthew Moorhouse over a dispute between European overlanders and the Maruara people, the overlanders had been engaging in sexual relations with Maraura women without giving the Maraura the food and clothing that was promised in return. An estimated 30 to 40 Maruara were murdered, though Aboriginal oral tradition suggests this is a conservative figure.^[21]
• 1842Richmond River massacres – A series of murders of groups of Bunjalung people around the Richmond River. The 1842 massacre of 100 Bundjalung people at Evans Head by Europeans, was variously said to have been in retaliation for the killing of 'a few sheep', or the killing of 'five European men'. In 1853–4, at an area close to Ballina the Native Police Murdered between 30 and 40 Bundjalung people, including men, women and children while they slept. In the 1860s an estimated 150 Bunjalung were poisoned.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Sydney[edit]

Razor gangs[edit]

Razor gangs were notorious criminal gangs operating in and around Sydney throughout 1920s and 30s. The term 'razor gang' refers to the preferred choice of a weapon during the period. Razors became a common weapon in armed robberies and assaults after the passage of the Pistol Licensing Act 1927, which imposed severe penalties for carrying concealed firearms and handguns. Sydney gangland began to carry razors instead of pistols^[26]

In the 1920s there was a significant increase in organised crime activity caused in part by the prohibition of sale of cocaine by chemists under the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 1927, the prohibition of street prostitution under the Vagrancy Act 1905, the prohibition of off-course betting under the Betting and Gaming Act 1906. Around the same time, the government introduced 6pm lockout laws, known as the Six o'clock swill, under the Licensing Act 1916.^[27][28]

2014 Lockout Laws[edit]

After the widely publicised deaths of two 18 year olds, Thomas Kelly and Daniel Christie, the NSW government was pressured to take action in regard to alcohol-related violence in the Sydney CBD and Kings Cross in particular.^[29][30][31]

In 2014, then PremierBarry O'Farrell introduction of a series of 'one punch' and 'lock out' laws. The laws were included under constructive (felony) murder offences with the base offence of assault. The laws introduced a mandatory eight-year minimum sentence for alcohol or drug-related assaults that result in death, 1:30am lockouts at licensed venues and a mandatory 10pm closing time for bottle shops.^[32][33][34]

Sydney musicians, DJs and nightclub owners raised significant concerns following laws introduction, claiming that live music venues have low rates of violent incidence and would become financially nonviable.^[35] Other opposition to the lock out laws cite that the laws have not curbed violence nor do they show a decrease in alcohol consumption.^[36]

See also[edit]

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2. ^'Global Peace Index 2018'(PDF). Visionofhumanity.org. Institute for Economics and Peace.
3. ^'Safe Cities Index: Security in a rapidly urbanising world'(PDF). The Economist. The Economist Group. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
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13. ^Kohen, J (1993). The Darug and their Neighbours: The Traditional Aboriginal Owners of the Sydney Region.
14. ^Kass, Terry (February 2005). 'Western Sydney Thematic History'(PDF). State Heritage Register Project. NSW Heritage Office. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
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Star Casino in Pyrmont, Sydney. Photo Jeremy Piper

VIOLENCE is on the rise in and around Sydney’s Star Casino, new government data has revealed, raising questions yet again as to why it remains exempt from tough liquor lockout laws.

The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics (BOCSAR) published figures today that showed non-domestic assaults in the Pyrmont area, where the Star is located, increased to an average of almost 13 assaults a month.

The findings cements the area as one of central Sydney’s violence hot spots.

But the Star said assaults away from the casino should not be attributed to them and their own figures showed a drop in assaults.

NSW’s controversial lockout laws, which prohibit patrons entering pubs and clubs in Kings Cross and the CBD after 1.30am and stop bars serving drinks after 3am, were introduced in 2014.

They have been cited as a key reason behind a plummet in the number of assaults in central Sydney. However, critics have said some of the violence may simply have moved to venues close to, but exempt from, the lockouts - such as the casino.

Emergency services were called to Pirrama Rd, across from the Star Casino, last month to an assault involving several people. Picture: Gordon McComiskieSource:News Corp Australia

INCREASE

According to BOCSAR, since the introduction of the lockouts, two extra assaults per month were taking place in the casino precinct.

Almost half of the assaults in Pyrmont, immediately to the west of the CBD, occurred near the casino, with 71 per cent of victims found to be casino patrons, while more than one in 10 were taxi drivers.

However, a similar rise in assaults had not been seen in other areas close to the lockout zone such as Newtown, Double Bay or Bondi.

BOCSAR director Don Weatherburn said the increase was relatively small compared to a reduction in assaults recorded at Kings Cross and the CBD.

“But there’s no doubt there has been a significant increase” at the Star and its surrounds in Pyrmont, he said.

The landmark research also found at least 30 per cent of the assaults happened while the offender was being evicted from the casino or shortly afterwards and 73 per cent were judged by police to be alcohol related.

Dr Don Weatherburn who runs the Bureau of Crime Statistics which show alcohol and violence are linked, pictured in Kings Cross, Sydney.Source:News Limited

INSULT
The report puts the state’s crime statistician at odds with the Star which said it had seen a decrease in the number of incidents were down 19 per from 64 in 2014 to 52 in 2015 with one per 211,000 visitors.

In a submission to the NSW government’s independent review of the laws, the Star said with 40,000 people at the casino on an average Friday night, the number of assaults was low in context.

“Since the commencement of the lockouts, there has been a downward trend in the number of incidents at the Star,” the submission says, reported the Daily Telegraph.

Casino Nsw Crime Rate 2019

In a statement, the Star said it was “suggested but not proved lockouts have resulted in increased assaults” at the casino and, in any case, the rise quoted was minimal at 1.8 per cent.

The venue claimed it and the casino regulator “agree” there was a reduction in assault numbers between 2014 and 2015.

“The Star contends that incidents which have occurred away from the property and have involved persons who have not attended the property have been attributed to the Star.”

But Dr Weatherburn rejected the Star’s protestations on Wednesday, saying “it’s not uncommon for people who are affected by bad news on crime to offer their own view on what’s happening to crime.

“All I can say is that we’re completely independent, we don’t have an axe to grind in any of this,” he said.

“Our concern is simply to find out what’s going on”.

Talking last October, head of anti-lockouts lobby group Keep Sydney Open, Tyson Koh, said exempting the casino from the restrictions was an insult.

“We know these areas are hotbeds for assaults and self-harm, but they bring in too much money for the state government to want to curb,” he told Music Feeds.

“It’s not my desire to see the casinos restricted, but the idea of these casinos being the only sanctioned night-life option in Sydney is, quite frankly, an insult.”

A street mural featuring NSW Premier Mike Baird on Chippen Lane in Chippendale. Picture: APP>Source:AAP

CASINO MIKE

In February, 15,000 people marched through the streets of central Sydney against lockouts which are currently under review by the NSW Government.

The protesters variously accuse the laws of restricting personal liberties, destroying Sydney’s night-life and threatening businesses and jobs in the music and hospitality industries.

A protest against lockout laws in Sydney was held on Sunday, February 21, in opposition to the New South Wales government’s curfew for bars and clubs. People joined the #KeepS...

A protest against lockout laws in Sydney was held on Sunday, February 21, in opposition to the New South Wales government’s curfew for bars and clubs. People joined the #KeepSydneyOpen rally to highlight the loss of businesses and jobs due to the lockouts. Sydney’s CBD Entertainment Precinct currently has in place 1:30 a.m. lockouts and 3 a.m. last drinks. New South Wales Premier Mike Baird hailed the benefits of the lockouts in a Facebook post on February 9 but was criticised in the comments section as “incompetent” and “hypocritical”, according to The Australian. Credit: Olivia Rosenman

Surry Hills resident Josh Stokes told news.com.au said the laws were too broad.

“I think it’s unfair that a few peoples’ mistakes ruin the fun for everyone,” he said.

NSW Premier Mike Baird has come under increasing pressure to explain why the Star is exempt from the laws but has sidestepped the issue and said all aspects of the law are currently under review.

Earlier this week a mural of “Casino Mike”, a new nickname the Premier has gained due to the controversy, appeared on the wall of an inner Sydney street. In the image, Mr Baird can be seen drinking wine, smoking, gambling and eating a kebab — all things restricted in one way or another outside of the casino.

- with AAP.