Willesee (Cops of the Cross - Sydney Heroin Epidemic) - 1985 Australian News Segment

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  • @anonymous3174
    @anonymous3174 3 роки тому +103

    These cops acting so judgemental towards these people were part of the most corrupt time in Australian policing

    • @cgoody9913
      @cgoody9913 2 роки тому +4

      It was, but look at times now...People want the police to be hired bodyguards, thugs, clip kids over the ears. But when it's done its messy, awful.

    • @TheBushRanger.
      @TheBushRanger. Рік тому +12

      Judgemental towards junkies and Prostitutes? How could they…

    • @jeanbrook7229
      @jeanbrook7229 Рік тому

      Yer and the cameras 😂😂😂 filth

    • @anonymous3174
      @anonymous3174 Рік тому +1

      @@cgoody9913 that's a good point.

    • @Aussiebloke311
      @Aussiebloke311 Рік тому +12

      I thought the cops handled every situation quite well

  • @ad_burner_sc
    @ad_burner_sc 6 місяців тому +17

    “Where did you get the Heroin from?” “ ROGER ROGERSON Sir!”

  • @hoggers7572
    @hoggers7572 3 роки тому +84

    These Kings Cross cops acting so above everybody when they were the greatest crooks in Australian history

    • @JulieIelasi-lt7yp
      @JulieIelasi-lt7yp 8 місяців тому

      So bloody may cooks in may 2024 Adelaide norwood police ! And Sturt police too all corrupt with me it's been going on for over 10 years now with the cop's harassing me setting me up with in all my government appointments sabotaging me

    • @pkey7370
      @pkey7370 6 місяців тому +3

      i heard at one point the NSW police force was considered the most corrupt in the world when Roger Rogerson was caught and it was found that 80% of the force was on the payroll and they had to dismiss them. It was the largest dismissal of a police force world wide and possibly still currently held record.

    • @pkey7370
      @pkey7370 6 місяців тому +2

      Like 1960's-1970's

    • @paulsz6194
      @paulsz6194 6 місяців тому

      Nice PR excercise… happen to get a "tip off" while the camera crew was with them, but on all the other days, nothing…

  • @davidkinnear5792
    @davidkinnear5792 3 роки тому +45

    lived there in the early -mid 80's. a dangerous & exciting place! now it's like an ice cream parlour with only 2 favours & everyone in bed by 9...

    • @paul9511
      @paul9511 2 роки тому +2

      Fun times back then.

    • @icysaracen3054
      @icysaracen3054 2 роки тому

      I’m been watching footage of 1960s 70s 80s London and the comments say there was less crime. Yet here the opposite. I work at night in the cross and all I see are little punks and the usual crazy homeless. It’s dead

    • @MrCites1
      @MrCites1 8 місяців тому

      And diversity !😊

  • @masterman724
    @masterman724 Рік тому +21

    The Australian accent has certainly changed over the decades.

    • @fingerprint5511
      @fingerprint5511 6 місяців тому +2

      yeah now everyone sounds like a Yank

    • @russoswerve7856
      @russoswerve7856 2 місяці тому

      It’s all the foreigners in this country. Time we stopped letting them here on our land, disrespectful to the indigenous ancestors

    • @RoseHagan-d6z
      @RoseHagan-d6z 29 днів тому

      @@masterman724 I think most accents have. There wee some English accent like Jordies that were almost impossible to understand but they have softened. I think it’s from TV.

  • @jerusalem5646
    @jerusalem5646 3 роки тому +33

    I loved the excitement of kings cross as a kid ….. it was so much fun 🤩

  • @the_real_bin_chicken
    @the_real_bin_chicken 7 місяців тому +13

    what they didnt show was all the people who got bashed by the cops back then.

  • @4x4maximus
    @4x4maximus 3 роки тому +33

    Kings Cross....where the cops ran the drug and prostitution trade 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @paul9511
      @paul9511 2 роки тому +4

      Yep.

    • @LOUIS-nx8jd
      @LOUIS-nx8jd 10 місяців тому

      makes sense, why in the same decade was there an heroin epidemic internationally in the West. @@paul9511

    • @paulsz6194
      @paulsz6194 6 місяців тому +2

      They regulated it. Whoever paid the least, got "caught"…..

  • @jls204
    @jls204 3 роки тому +26

    'we are the world' playing in the pinball parlour lol

  • @JasonISF
    @JasonISF Рік тому +6

    Was born in 1985, but love seeing this stuff from around the '80s.

    • @Tukinico
      @Tukinico Рік тому

      Watching judgemental abusive cops?😅😂😂

    • @JulieIelasi-lt7yp
      @JulieIelasi-lt7yp 8 місяців тому

      Yeah but you wouldn't want to be where theses young boys are when off their tank drunk ! Theses fuckn cops bash them 😒

    • @JulieIelasi-lt7yp
      @JulieIelasi-lt7yp 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Tukinicolooking at thoses cop's in this video they would be corrupt it was that same time 1985 so thoses cop's would of been scums

  • @sanctuaryism
    @sanctuaryism 2 роки тому +10

    same year as I was born. dammm mid- 80's was bad in sydney maybe worst period ever. sally anne huckstepp was still walking there then...

  • @GG-ud8id
    @GG-ud8id 3 роки тому +15

    Also the police have hopefully changed since then. They dont even try to hide their condescending manner on screen. Goodness knows what they were doing or saying off-screen.

    • @Threadbow
      @Threadbow 2 роки тому +4

      Taking bribes + + +

    • @265hemi7
      @265hemi7 Рік тому

      Exactly! .💰☠️🤔👿👹👮

    • @byza101
      @byza101 5 місяців тому +1

      That was the 80’s, they were pretty much all on the take, a law unto themselves. They ran the drugs and the hookers. Times were very different back then.

  • @Davez621
    @Davez621 Рік тому +3

    6:30 "We are the world" playing in the background... can't get more 80s than that.

  • @sutherlandA1
    @sutherlandA1 6 місяців тому +5

    I bet the phonebooks were hidden away when the cameras arrived

  • @masteryoda498
    @masteryoda498 2 роки тому +8

    Kings Cross, I’ve never seen the appeal of the place, it’s a s.hit hole, full of crappy overpriced nightclubs, bars and strip clubs.

    • @GG-ud8id
      @GG-ud8id 2 роки тому

      not anymore, its all gentrified apartments. To be honest, good. I was in my clubbing years in 2007/2008/2009 and the Cross was awful even then. Just trashy and gross. I think the "soft spot" people have for the Cross is misguided an exists because they dont like change.

    • @David-0100
      @David-0100 Рік тому

      Exactly! Well said.

    • @balung
      @balung Рік тому +4

      Well, in 2023, the Cross, no longer exists, just another gentrified boring Sydney Suburb.

    • @billymack333
      @billymack333 Рік тому +4

      The best moments were usually mid week when all the troublemakers from the suburbs weren’t there. It was what it was. I had some decent times.

  • @davechristian7543
    @davechristian7543 3 роки тому +22

    1985 lol -,thats when the cops were the crooks

    • @lynettekomidar2819
      @lynettekomidar2819 3 роки тому +8

      They always were, I grew up there. They didn't hide it.

    • @Egg-h5f
      @Egg-h5f 3 роки тому

      Yeah, LOL, Nice cops for the camera! Usually you would cop a fat 💋

    • @265hemi7
      @265hemi7 2 роки тому +6

      Still are .

    • @mickeymouse1697
      @mickeymouse1697 2 роки тому +6

      They still are

    • @GLOBAL-STRUGGLE
      @GLOBAL-STRUGGLE 2 роки тому +4

      @@265hemi7 yep

  • @derekgleeson1353
    @derekgleeson1353 3 роки тому +9

    Those brothers were HAMMERED!!

    • @moregoldmoregold
      @moregoldmoregold 3 роки тому +5

      Hope they still alive today and see this..
      If it was me. Be like remember those days. Over cooked it that night.

    • @JayWalkerp
      @JayWalkerp 11 днів тому

      Fuk yeah I wish I was now!!!!

  • @benjijames7808
    @benjijames7808 Рік тому +2

    Chook Fowler was most likely overlooked this and failed to called a ambulance

  • @RickAintStoned
    @RickAintStoned Рік тому +7

    I miss arcades

  • @RoseHagan-d6z
    @RoseHagan-d6z 2 місяці тому +2

    Police to John "bad girls". Bad john it was illegal for him too,

  • @warwickhubble680
    @warwickhubble680 2 роки тому +6

    Loved the place travelled up there from Cabramatta every week end in the 90 party hard with my mates the best times

    • @GLOBAL-STRUGGLE
      @GLOBAL-STRUGGLE 2 роки тому +1

      Cabramatta was were it was at too lol

    • @bobbyjovi
      @bobbyjovi Рік тому

      Cabramatta was all junkies

  • @craigmartin5939
    @craigmartin5939 2 роки тому +6

    Any chance of putting on YT Willisee's doco on the St.Kilda Police in 1984??

    • @mubd1234sAussieMediaArchive
      @mubd1234sAussieMediaArchive  2 роки тому +4

      Sadly this is all the Willesee footage I have, I found it on a random tape I had lying around.

    • @craigmartin5939
      @craigmartin5939 2 роки тому +3

      @@mubd1234sAussieMediaArchive oh ok, the doco Im talking about was really good and featured Ron Iddles as a sgt at St.Kilda.

    • @265hemi7
      @265hemi7 2 роки тому

      @@craigmartin5939 st Kilda police , long corrupt and will never change .

  • @SonofthePhantom
    @SonofthePhantom 2 роки тому +4

    Different era indeed, how things have changed

  • @wwmeloy
    @wwmeloy Рік тому +6

    Man this was a wild time in the world. Sure most of those cops were crooked as it gets

  • @baronobo
    @baronobo 7 місяців тому +2

    Love that kid... "This is King's Cross!?!? Let's go home!!!" lol

  • @lh7325
    @lh7325 2 місяці тому

    0:08 "in the second part". Do you have the first part?

  • @childrensorg856
    @childrensorg856 3 роки тому +4

    That was inside the old Astoria Hotel.

  • @makersmark1974
    @makersmark1974 2 роки тому +5

    Watching this today makes me question my history..
    Running/working Club Excalibur at the Cross was the best moments in time, in came with the riff-raff from players, walkers, runners, erchers, cor police, etc.. and to survive the bs media story such as underbelly banana or the attention. I'm glad i made right decisions..
    Staying out of the lime light brings long-term benifits. It helps when not speaking of unwritten war stories..
    Mike & Munroe, best media ever had...

  • @annoyedlemon
    @annoyedlemon 2 роки тому +4

    these days the effect can be seen from the older junkies in housing

  • @265hemi7
    @265hemi7 2 роки тому +2

    Does this channel owner have the missing parts of this ? .

  • @AussieBama
    @AussieBama 24 дні тому

    The amount of dead bodies from 21 Division scattered around Sydney is insane -

  • @petergraham2229
    @petergraham2229 3 місяці тому

    Do you have episode 1 and 3?

  • @luouns
    @luouns 11 місяців тому +2

    It’s changed a lot since then. It’s not the same. Not even nearly.

  • @heatheroneal4969
    @heatheroneal4969 3 роки тому +10

    These jacks are all dead now

    • @IB-1963
      @IB-1963 3 роки тому +4

      Don't know about that - but the motor cycle cop (leather jacket) with 1980"s mow with the large nose - putting the drunk into the padded cell is the same cop in file footage (again wearing the inner city Police motor-cyclists leather jacket, jodpurs etc) when Sally Anne Huckstepp was removed from the water when she was found dead in Centennial Park. He only lasted about 5 years in the Cops before he had to resign after being convicted of seriously assaulting someone arrested in a stolen car

  • @44sammy4
    @44sammy4 3 місяці тому

    that pinball parlour looked fucking wicked!! Growing up back then would have been a trip

  • @ad_burner_sc
    @ad_burner_sc 6 місяців тому +1

    Such compassion shown ….

  • @hincksman
    @hincksman 3 роки тому +11

    I feel sick watching this. Those kids would have been sitting ducks for the trash that lurked around that place.

    • @265hemi7
      @265hemi7 2 роки тому +6

      The police were just as bad ! .🤔👿☠️🏴‍☠️

    • @cryptolord9826
      @cryptolord9826 2 роки тому +2

      They would be in there 50s now

    • @GG-ud8id
      @GG-ud8id 2 роки тому +2

      @@cryptolord9826 doubt they're alive

    • @lookatmepleasesir
      @lookatmepleasesir 29 днів тому

      they probably were sadly.

  • @jeffedwards5028
    @jeffedwards5028 Рік тому +2

    Can't believe the police officer had his gun on whilst dealing with the young bloke in the charge room !!!

    • @jonglewongle3438
      @jonglewongle3438 Рік тому

      Humanity are junkie monkeys. I heard it said in those days that people ere getting knifed there every night. You would not be taking any chances with those little twerps.

    • @stevenobrien557
      @stevenobrien557 27 днів тому

      I remember about that time when cops came on primary school visits, they would show us how the revolvers cocked while pointed at the ground as we were all crowded around. One cop had a kid grab at his belt and bullets came out and tumbled on the ground, he wasn't very happy.

  • @heatheroneal4969
    @heatheroneal4969 3 роки тому +4

    Little goose balls selling their backsides for gear lol

    • @hoggers7572
      @hoggers7572 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah it's real funny ..if you're into it

  • @sarahblaquiere3121
    @sarahblaquiere3121 Рік тому +6

    No doubt the kids didn't go home because home wasn't safe :(

    • @David-0100
      @David-0100 Рік тому +1

      stop making assumptions.

    • @ChrisCre8tor
      @ChrisCre8tor Рік тому +1

      go call their parents then

    • @lookatmepleasesir
      @lookatmepleasesir 29 днів тому

      @@David-0100 brah they're in an arcade in kings cross at 1am in the 80s, they were probably state care run aways

  • @benjijames7808
    @benjijames7808 Рік тому +3

    I wonder how many of those cops were on bill Bayers payroll

  • @a2nDean
    @a2nDean Рік тому +2

    was there street fighter 2 at kings cross back then?

    • @paulsz6194
      @paulsz6194 6 місяців тому

      Nah, it hadn’t even been thought of back then. That was in the ‘90s

  • @mrhominoid4312
    @mrhominoid4312 5 місяців тому +1

    I worked kings Cross railway 1981 to 1984, the things I saw and people I met going through the ticket barrier some were great, some were great asswipes.lol😅😅

  • @Jazzjasey
    @Jazzjasey Рік тому +3

    Where's big Lenny McPherson ! Lol

  • @ninashirley432
    @ninashirley432 2 місяці тому

    This was recorded in the 80’s .

  • @sigmasmegma8514
    @sigmasmegma8514 2 роки тому +4

    6:45 haha

  • @balung
    @balung Рік тому +3

    In 2023 Kings Cross no longer exists, its just another boring gentrified Sydney Suburb.

  • @RoseHagan-d6z
    @RoseHagan-d6z 2 місяці тому

    In 1978 i used to watch the cops hand heroin to the 10 year old prostitutes on the street, Couldn't say anything - terrifying.

    • @lookatmepleasesir
      @lookatmepleasesir 29 днів тому

      sounds more like darlinghurst. the wall still gives me the creeps

    • @RoseHagan-d6z
      @RoseHagan-d6z 29 днів тому

      @ this was just up from the fountain on bourbon side - I would be walking up to the catholic school. And I’m with you about the Wall still freaks me out 45 years later.

    • @lookatmepleasesir
      @lookatmepleasesir 29 днів тому

      ​@@RoseHagan-d6z yeh ive heard bad stories about the fountain in that era, and even in the 2010s were ocasionally sad sights to be seen around the wall both day and night. Its sad that the character of the area was completely gutted but the reality is that it was a horrific place with many lives ruined and lost. A national disgrace really, comparable to the stolen generation

  • @stevefleming356
    @stevefleming356 9 місяців тому +2

    Where’s the dodger

  • @deedeehellovadame5797
    @deedeehellovadame5797 4 місяці тому

    I worked in a womens prison as a health educator in the 90's. 98% of the women were in for drugs and solicitation. The same amount had been victims of sexual violence as babies, toddlers, kids & teens. To look at the way these cops treated those girls was heartbreaking. snd old mate Fatboy soon got compassionate when the well dressed, living big brother arrived Before that, they were all ar$ehats.

    • @deedeehellovadame5797
      @deedeehellovadame5797 4 місяці тому

      *loving

    • @JayWalkerp
      @JayWalkerp 11 днів тому

      All crime revolves around drugs... Most of the men are there either directly or indirectly because of drugs ... It's the same for men, a troubled childhood leads to addiction

  • @jonglewongle3438
    @jonglewongle3438 Рік тому +1

    One can tell from the comments that people have been watching too much Underbelly. One can see what stuff like Underbelly was conveying, that being that it was a place of fun, excitement, and adventure ruined by interfering heavy-handed cops.

  • @AussieBama
    @AussieBama 3 місяці тому

    The old man was with 21 Division in the X then -

  • @patrickjohnson1309
    @patrickjohnson1309 2 роки тому +2

    Danny Karam, should of been on this .

    • @joelhungerford8388
      @joelhungerford8388 2 роки тому +1

      He was prob still locked up at this time

    • @HonestJunkie
      @HonestJunkie Рік тому +5

      wrong decade old mate ..... you've been watching too much underbelly

    • @paulsz6194
      @paulsz6194 6 місяців тому

      He was probably getting being told to sit in the naughty corner at school still, not his decade…

  • @moregoldmoregold
    @moregoldmoregold 3 роки тому +10

    So the guy is sitting in a police station in the mid 80s dies a few hours later of “heroin overdose” suss.

  • @AshweeElauraDannon
    @AshweeElauraDannon Рік тому +7

    Cops called crooks for making sure people aren’t dying from drugs overdosing, making sure prostitutes are not hurt or raped.
    Being stern when their parents should be the ones carings. Sadly hasn’t stopped; but it’s not the police’s fault or responsibility but they use stern sympathy.
    Would you want this to be your family, your son or daughter. If it is I’m sorry because it’s not ok.

    • @fraser46
      @fraser46 Рік тому

      The police were literal crooks, as in selling drugs and murdering people.

    • @spankyy101
      @spankyy101 5 місяців тому

      Agreed, people can’t see it’s tough love from the cops. They aren’t overjoyed to see people in these states, but harsh/firm words are a necessity to outline people stupid actions and stop them from repeating them

  • @GaZonk100
    @GaZonk100 5 місяців тому

    "how old are you?" " Fourteen. . .I. . .mean ((cue sound of theremin)). . .fifty-four. ."

  • @justnik8727
    @justnik8727 2 роки тому +2

    Cant belioeve that 16 year old was "almost" unconcsious

    • @magyaradam8957
      @magyaradam8957 2 роки тому

      Even worse now, theure on meth

    • @paulsz6194
      @paulsz6194 6 місяців тому

      Yep, they could quite decide. Didn’t have a coin to flip over it…😂

    • @JayWalkerp
      @JayWalkerp 11 днів тому

      Mate, I wish my opiate tolerance was that low

  • @minixt9835
    @minixt9835 9 місяців тому

    I sure hope these cops aren't crooked.

  • @bretth4988
    @bretth4988 2 роки тому +4

    The rudeness of the cop telling the kid playing his game to look at him. he was only playing his game. He wasn't wandering the streets..

    • @deangreen3370
      @deangreen3370 Рік тому +2

      i wish cops did that today

    • @HonestJunkie
      @HonestJunkie Рік тому +3

      Dude ....... the kid was 14 (if you believe him) and it was 1:15 in the morning in the middle of the X.. Should the cop have just politely waited till the kid was ready??

    • @lookatmepleasesir
      @lookatmepleasesir 29 днів тому

      those kings cross arcades pretty much existed for dealers and pedos to prey on kids

  • @davemustaki134
    @davemustaki134 4 місяці тому

    The arcade owner's/management should have been held responsible for letting kids in that late but different times i guess

    • @stevenobrien557
      @stevenobrien557 27 днів тому

      pretty sure that arcade was a front

    • @davemustaki134
      @davemustaki134 27 днів тому

      @stevenobrien557 most likely but that's not what I'm saying

  • @MrJohnnybe123
    @MrJohnnybe123 6 місяців тому

    I wonder where the cops are now

    • @JayWalkerp
      @JayWalkerp 11 днів тому

      Enjoying retirement on the sunshine coast

  • @cooIcat6778
    @cooIcat6778 2 роки тому +1

    7:30 did you seriously have to ruin historical footage?

    • @mubd1234sAussieMediaArchive
      @mubd1234sAussieMediaArchive  2 роки тому +11

      I didn't censor the face, it was broadcast like this.

    • @amp279
      @amp279 Рік тому

      There's only a few reasons they would blot out someone's face back then,
      if you're put in witness protection, or you're an informer.

  • @ninashirley432
    @ninashirley432 2 місяці тому

    I am writing a book about the on going crime by bondi police that helped John Ibraham that cyber bullying my business on the Bondi Loop as well as laughed at me being stalked and sent death threats to me and my children! As rose bay police told me to leave the state! They were young hookers coming into nail salons and obviously under the influence meeting that the police was snoring cocaine and having sex with her at lunchtime on their lunch breaks above the PlayStation this is only three years ago given it 2024 these crimes is still going on in the police force And I feel the situation is with some more people realize as women M winding up dead around Bondi I’m feeling it’s a Police doing it and then they claim that the girl committed suicide. I also train with a guy from Fitness first he was paid to follow me to a Club and try and have me gang raped. His best friend is a doctor. He gets paid $40,000 to lie on medical reports to cover up murders this situation‘s. Just got out of hand and it’s been going on for decades and Sydney. If we really need someone that’s really serious about the job in the legal system. Step forward and make a change.

  • @craigtibbetts2925
    @craigtibbetts2925 8 місяців тому +1

    I went to school with those ranga twins… Nathan and Morgan….. they were trouble back then. I often wonder what became of them!

    • @Laineyslays1
      @Laineyslays1 7 місяців тому +2

      Kain brothers? In and out of jail a lot Nathan was abducted and murdered in 07

    • @craigtibbetts2925
      @craigtibbetts2925 7 місяців тому

      @@Laineyslays1 yes that’s them…. They were never going to achieve much in life, you could see that back then. Got expelled from Patrician Bros and ended up at Blacktown Boys High. I believe one of them may have even been with Angelo Tsakos the night he was shot dead by police in Maryong!

    • @lukestocks4370
      @lukestocks4370 4 місяці тому

      Yep that's them.
      I was related to them
      They had such a nice family
      We didn't see them a lot growing up. But yep Nathan went missing in 07.
      Morgan also has passed away.
      Yep both in and out of jail there hole life.😮

    • @lukestocks4370
      @lukestocks4370 4 місяці тому

      ​@@Laineyslays1yes correct, I was related to them. Both passed now

    • @craigtibbetts2925
      @craigtibbetts2925 4 місяці тому

      @@lukestocks4370 sorry to hear that news mate. I went to Patrician Brothers Blacktown with them. They might have been expelled , then they ended up at Blacktown Boys HS. I think one of them may have been with Angelo Tsakos on that fateful night!

  • @samutsakon
    @samutsakon Рік тому +2

    Shamefull policing

  • @humor1095
    @humor1095 2 роки тому +4

    Good old days of real policing 👏👏👏 not this wank wank of today!!!

    • @GLOBAL-STRUGGLE
      @GLOBAL-STRUGGLE 2 роки тому +7

      Yeah the good old days when the cops were more crooks then these petty thevie addicts

  • @AussieBama
    @AussieBama 24 дні тому

    HaHa The good ole X - the old man was with 21 Division in the X for years - if only the people knew the truth - the underworld meeting place for the misplaced

  • @GG-ud8id
    @GG-ud8id 3 роки тому

    early work from mike monroe

    • @OzDelphi
      @OzDelphi 2 роки тому

      @Documentary Detective IIwho is Mark Willesee?