00:02So we often talk about organised crime, but in actual fact it's emerged that it's
00:08disorganised crime. So you've got the crime syndicates, crime families, hiring crime brokers
00:14or violence brokers who are then subcontracting that out to carry out homicides and home invasions.
00:22So whereas once upon a time there used to be a degree of structure to it, now these
00:28young kids are going out for $5,000, $10,000 for drugs or for cryptocurrency being paid
00:35to go and do homicides and home invasions.
00:37Why has it changed like that?
00:40I think there's a couple of pressures behind that. There's been massive seizures in cocaine
00:44over the last number of years coming into Australia and that connection between it coming through
00:50Oceania and the Pacific Islands then has made its way to Australia. And some people in the
00:57Pacific Nation community have been using that, leveraging that to implement or sell cocaine
01:03throughout Australia. So it's a bigger picture than just what is happening immediately on our
01:08streets in New South Wales.
01:10Are there two principal gangs involved in what's happening in Sydney and what are they fighting
01:15over? Money from drugs or tobacco or what?
01:18So they're fighting over a number of things, Joe. They're fighting over turf. So when they
01:21talk about turf, it's geography, which equals population, the capacity of that population
01:27not only to use drugs, but then to go out and sell the drugs as well. So also the tobacco
01:31wars, also the alcohol wars, which we sell in Melbourne and also the drug war. So the crime
01:37market or the product, as they call it, is just substituted for either alcohol, tobacco
01:43or drugs. And they're struggling for power because some of the organisers are actually overseas,
01:50don't have line of sight over what is happening nationally in Australia. So that is causing
01:56a bit of tension and friction and causing this power struggle between the organisations.
02:01And the police in the New South Wales government are adamant it's under control and they're on
02:05top of it. With two people dead in two days from mistaken identity, can they really argue
02:10that? Look, it would be hard to argue, to be honest, they can't put a police officer
02:14on every corner, on every street across New South Wales. That's an impossible ask. The
02:20best that they can do is set up a strike force or task force to look at this crime type
02:24or
02:25to look at these specific crimes and then try and work out who's behind it. But the problem
02:30is you've got these young kids who are one step removed through the crime brokers or the crime
02:36violent people to linking them to the crime syndicates is going to be impossible because
02:42their distance, in other words, the crime syndicates, the crime brokers or the violence brokers and
02:48the kids, unless you can link all three, the crime syndicates are going to almost get away
02:53with it. So it's a new merging of type of, you know, the way in which crime is being handled
02:58or addressed.
02:58Yeah, so the police keep saying, the ministers keep saying they've arrested 800 people over
03:04the last year in relation to this sort of crime. And that shows that they're incredibly active
03:10and they're doing all they can. But how do they turn the tables on this? Because this is
03:17getting to the stage, especially in the last week, where it's extremely unsettling that people
03:24are being murdered. And yeah, it's been cases of mistaken identity.
03:31Yeah, look, there's only limited amount the police can do. So the police would be there
03:36to reassure the public that, you know, they're doing the best that they can. But to try and
03:40try and, you know, arrest this, it's going to be really, it's hard for the police. You know,
03:46they don't have the resources to be able to do it. Yes, 800 arrests is good news. But throughout
03:52history, you know, crime on criminals have always been one step ahead of the police.
03:57And this is no different in 2026, as it was in 1826. So they can say they've arrested all
04:03these individuals, and that's good. But at the end of the day, they're always going to
04:07be tragically one step ahead of the police.
04:09So they're like, there's only a rapid woman's chocos and 거예요. So it's just one of the
04:09victims. I mean, it just been transmitted to the police. And the accused of sort of he
04:11of menDid shouldn't tell them, as he's obviously defeated the sacrifice out ofING a community.
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