NSW police use force against Indigenous Australians at drastically disproportionate levels, data shows

Data shows that Indigenous people were involved in about 45% of incidents where New South Wales police used force, despite being only about 3.4% of the NSW population. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

New South Wales police used force against Indigenous Australians at vastly disproportionate rates during the past three years, internal police data shows.

Records obtained by the Redfern Legal Centre show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were significantly overrepresented in police use of force incidents from 2018-20 to 2021-22.