Britain's police chiefs say that violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism

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.

  • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•10 months ago

    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.

      • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        Let me get this straight. You want to put the power back into the hands of men to freely beat their wives, and the only deterant is OTHER men, who can also freely beat their wives might stop them???

        You realize that right now the UK is already dealing with this problem of violence against women, and the police are having trouble keeping up over there.

        And now you want to remove the ONLY deterant for that type of behavior?

          • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
            -1•10 months ago

            Because in the current system, women are free to call the police, get care and housing to escape domestic abuse, and they arrest the man. In the UK, I’m hearing the amount of women calling is overwhelming the system, and more men beat their wives than police can arrest…but that just means that they ARE arresting them as quickly as they can. They just have an amount of liquid thats more than their cup can hold.

            In your scenario, you’re saying take the cup away, and everyone’s on their own with there the liquid falls. Which in my estimation will only increase the amount of domestic abuse without ANY precautions in place.

            Right now, we have a system that can’t keep up with demand. In your system, we IGNORE the demand.