https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/23/violence-against-women-national-emergency-england-wales-police I see The Guardian is again airing dubious copaganda. If we've said it once, we've said it a billion times, cops are not reliable sources and they will deliberately mislead you.
For the past five years, the NPCC have been some of the biggest apologists for the Tories (in particular how nothing is ever their problem, it is someone else's). #ukpol
"Focus on VAWG intensified after the 2021 rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer, Wayne Couzens, who had previously been investigated for indecent exposure. An official report found wide-scale failings and the second part of the inquiry, expected next year, is also set to be damning."
Distracting from their own disgrace, I see. If only someone didn't stupidly give the police so much power in 2020 for that cop to carry out that murder. "solution" is even more power for the police?
"Police chiefs also warned of young men being “radicalised” online by influencers such as Andrew Tate. They demanded technology companies act more quickly to take down extreme material."
It's not that the police has / had abusers in their ranks. It's that this guy who has been arrested by the Romanian Police for alleged sex trafficking has been posting offensive content online. Look at him instead. Don't look at us. #ukpol
"Clare Kelly, the associate head of policy at the NSPCC"
Of course, there would be one of their takes somewhere in there.
An unreasonable lobbying outfit which only ever seems to come up with unreasonable ideas (one tells me they've historically worried about "satanic rituals and altars").
"Estimated total incidents"
Knowing the police, there must be duplicates in there, maybe the same person has called them multiple times.
Also, considering the U.K. only criminalized "grooming" (talking sexually to a minor) in I think 2018, it is not surprising that statistics for that might go up.
In addition, this is out of touch with more continental discourse about how minors are being criminalized for sexting with each other (and how a platform might be more invasive in looking for that now).
"with men believing it was part of a normal sexual relationship, without women’s consent"
Actually, something looking into it showed that they do ask for consent, but that they do so in a one-off conversation.
“Schools also need support to deliver effective relationships and sex education that is high-quality, inclusive and relevant to the realities of children’s lives to embed a culture where girls are safe, heard and empowered and healthy relationships thrive.”
Seems more reasonable.
"We don’t think it is functioning … We know that we’ve got significant delays within the court system."
It might help if the U.K. didn't rush to criminalize everything that is "obnoxious" or "offensive". The U.K. has a huge over-criminalization problem, and this too, goes unmentioned. #ukpol
I've read some takes from the British Police, and I've noticed they can be very "our problem is your problem".
If they have misogyny in the force, they'll blame something else.
If they have abusers, they'll blame something else.
If they historically call child abuse victims going to them liars to their faces (kind of rude, but hey), they will blame something else.
It's someone else's problem.
The link The Guardian provides here to this alleged analysis also doesn't appear to be functional. In fact, it goes to an irrelevant page from 2022.
#ukpol