Violence against women at 'epidemic' levels and is a threat on par with terrorism, UK police warn
Violence against women at 'epidemic' levels and is a threat on par with terrorism, UK police warn
Violence against women at 'epidemic' levels and is a threat on par with terrorism, UK police warn
Violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism, Britain's police chiefs said Tuesday.
More than 1 million violent crimes against women and girls were recorded by U.K. police in 2022 to 2023, accounting for one-fifth of all recorded crime, a new report commissioned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing said.
One in every six murders was related to domestic abuse in the same period. At least one in every 12 women each year will be a victim of crimes including sexual offenses, rape, stalking, harassment or online sexual abuse, the report estimated, with the exact number thought to be much higher because of crimes that go unreported.
Oh, the irony of the police "warning" us (hint: they play a large part in the violence, both directly themselves, and by enabling others).
Also:
https://chimesnewspaper.com/52853/opinions/the-language-of-rape-culture-normalizes-violence/#:~:text=THE%20IMPACT%20OF%20THE%20DESCRIPTIVE%20LANGUAGE%C2%A0
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So what's being said here is that in the USA cops unofficially endorse violence against black people, while in the UK the police unofficially endorse violence against women.
Which kind of shows that it may not be a local culture issue, but more of a modern police approach problem. The WAY we go about a police system is fundamentally broken. Because there is no way you'd want to live in an anarchistic state, with NO police. At the same time THESE police have got to go.
That’s absolutely what I want. Community self defence is a far better alternative to the police. The police are a relatively modern invention - historically, people would just look after their own communities without any special powers or privileges. That is the system we should return to, more or less.
If you remove poverty from the equation, most crime would drop. Take special powers away from the police and just watch how domestic violence suddenly is much less of an issue.
I really agree with the sentiment of the bottom post, but grammatically it just doesn't feel right to me. If two men kill two women each, then "how many women are killed by men" is 4, but "how many men kill women" is just 2. Maybe "how many women men kill"?
This is just really pedantic tho, the most important part is that femicides get treated more seriously
It really fucking is, and you're clearly aware it is, and yet, here we are!
So how about you do just that? You do realise that you are perfectly capable of just keeping this kind of unhelpful bullshit to yourself, right? Because I honestly doubt anyone gives a shit if a poster made by a charity already taking femicide more seriously "doesn't feel right" to you, a person clearly more concerned with the artificial construct that is grammer than with the content. The only thing your reply has contributed to the conversation is to derail it. Well done.