Don't ban bikie gangs, expert says

An expert on bikie culture has condemned calls for special laws to control motorcycle gangs.
By PETER GREGORY
AN EXPERT on bikie culture has condemned calls for special laws to control motorcycle gangs following the leak of a police report that two bike groups were setting up operations in Victoria.
Arthur Veno, an academic and author of books about bikies, said yesterday that individual members of the Finks and Comanchero clubs had been in Victoria for years.
A confidential police report said the two gangs were looking for clubhouses in Melbourne and recruiting local members.
Dr Veno said Victoria had a world-class regime for dealing with outlaw motorcycle groups, many of which were already in Victoria.
He said draconian laws declaring the clubs illegal and targeting their associates were good for politicians wanting to appear tough on crime, but encouraged police resources to be diverted from other law enforcement areas.
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