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Farid Farid

Police heavy on checking bailed Aboriginal youth: group

A legal group says NSW police target Indigenous youth for greater checking of their bail conditions. (Steven Markham/AAP PHOTOS)

Pounding on doors and shining torches in faces, police target young Aboriginal people in "discriminatory patterns", says a legal group that claims an 11-year-old on bail was checked more than 100 times over seven months.

Young Indigenous people were 11.7 per cent more likely to be checked by police than non-Indigenous youth, according to an analysis of bail compliance checks data in NSW commissioned by the Justice and Equity Centre.

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