The WA cops rounding up Indigenous kids: a 'toxic and racist environment'

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One of the worst moments of Jim Taylor's eight-year career as a Western Australian police officer was the day he strip-searched a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy.

Taylor, now 44, was working in Perth in the Juvenile Aid Group, or Jag". He says he was driving around the city's central business district with his senior sergeant and two other officers when they came across a group of four young Aboriginal kids. They rounded them up and took them back to the station.