Peter Kidd, the state's chief justice, said the media had paid too much attention in recent years to unfair coverage of crimes committed by African-Australians in the state;
In fact, the majority of crimes do not involve African descent, for example, in 2017, Sudanese crimes accounted for only 1% of the total number of crimes in Victoria; then the media love to report the 1%, leaving people with false senses;
The media are often self-conscious and unfounded in denouncing the courts for imposing too little sentences on the criminals, a very dangerous phenomenon that is worrying about undermining public confidence in the justice system.
