Like flies on shit, the right-wing bots are really quick to land when this kind of story is posted.
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It starts with the small things. I’d say if we policed the barriers and stopped people bumping through we would filter out a substantial amount of crime on the tube.
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The first thing I’d suspect is that this is a result of the last couple of years’ campaign to increase reporting of bad behaviour on the Tube. As in, the number of occurrences could be the same or even lower, but more victims feel encouraged to actually report them.
>”The increases seen in reporting following campaign launches or significant campaign and engagement activity have been anticipated and are a positive indication that our efforts to improve confidence and make it easier to report sexual offences, a crime that is widely recognised as being underreported across society, are making a difference.”
Seems that’s also the TFL’s line.
Damn it, I was still basking in the glow of ‘lowest homicides on record’ and now this
People worried about this just need to look at the stats – Crime is down actually!
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There’s been a massive campaign to encourage more reporting
This is a good sign. It means more people feel they can step forward and report this type of crime. It is definitely one that goes vastly underreported.
Ah yes, all the lefties coming out saying it’s due to ‘more reporting’. Wake the fuck up
I think the absence of staff is a factor here. I think it’s similar to being at school when the teacher leaves the classroom for a few minutes. Or being anonymously online. Being on the Tube seems to give some people licence to revert to their primitive, unevolved, uncivilized behaviour.
It’s not the fact that it’s being reported more that leads to the rise. It’s the fact that sexual offences are being committed in the first place. Just to be clear here the absence of staff is not an excuse to forego public decency and keep your fucking hands off other people. Evidently some people just don’t see it that way.
I think the further reporting is a positive but I do also feel there is a higher trend of harassment and sexual offences that coincides with the increase in anti social behaviour since COVID. The fact of the matter is there is no CCTV on trains and limited CCTV at stations and it is not so easy for a victim to record on their phone. What makes it worse is that we all suffer from a bystander syndrome where no one intervenes if someone is being harassed. Anecdotally from speaking to the police, some of their advice is poor from you ignoring it to walking off to go on another train which just punishes the victim. So even though the reported offences are higher, I suspect this is still the tip of the iceberg.
I am also not engaging with the left right debate of one extreme of immigration being fantastic with no issues and the other extreme of all immigrants and people of colour are to blame. The fact is there are sexual offenders of all races so politicising the debate in this way does not help. Likewise politicising the debate between whether you like Sadiq Khan, Labour, Reform or the Tories again has sadly distorted a serious debate on crime with people automatically entrenching themselves in their respective camps without recognising there is an institutional issue of sexual offences not being properly investigated.
Current global politics and slime like the tate brothers have made people feel entitled to enact their lechery and violate others dignity.
Could it be related to tube ridership being the highest in the last 5 years?
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Like flies on shit, the right-wing bots are really quick to land when this kind of story is posted.
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It starts with the small things. I’d say if we policed the barriers and stopped people bumping through we would filter out a substantial amount of crime on the tube.
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The first thing I’d suspect is that this is a result of the last couple of years’ campaign to increase reporting of bad behaviour on the Tube. As in, the number of occurrences could be the same or even lower, but more victims feel encouraged to actually report them.
>”The increases seen in reporting following campaign launches or significant campaign and engagement activity have been anticipated and are a positive indication that our efforts to improve confidence and make it easier to report sexual offences, a crime that is widely recognised as being underreported across society, are making a difference.”
Seems that’s also the TFL’s line.
Damn it, I was still basking in the glow of ‘lowest homicides on record’ and now this
People worried about this just need to look at the stats – Crime is down actually!
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There’s been a massive campaign to encourage more reporting
This is a good sign. It means more people feel they can step forward and report this type of crime. It is definitely one that goes vastly underreported.
Ah yes, all the lefties coming out saying it’s due to ‘more reporting’. Wake the fuck up
I think the absence of staff is a factor here. I think it’s similar to being at school when the teacher leaves the classroom for a few minutes. Or being anonymously online. Being on the Tube seems to give some people licence to revert to their primitive, unevolved, uncivilized behaviour.
It’s not the fact that it’s being reported more that leads to the rise. It’s the fact that sexual offences are being committed in the first place. Just to be clear here the absence of staff is not an excuse to forego public decency and keep your fucking hands off other people. Evidently some people just don’t see it that way.
I think the further reporting is a positive but I do also feel there is a higher trend of harassment and sexual offences that coincides with the increase in anti social behaviour since COVID. The fact of the matter is there is no CCTV on trains and limited CCTV at stations and it is not so easy for a victim to record on their phone. What makes it worse is that we all suffer from a bystander syndrome where no one intervenes if someone is being harassed. Anecdotally from speaking to the police, some of their advice is poor from you ignoring it to walking off to go on another train which just punishes the victim. So even though the reported offences are higher, I suspect this is still the tip of the iceberg.
I am also not engaging with the left right debate of one extreme of immigration being fantastic with no issues and the other extreme of all immigrants and people of colour are to blame. The fact is there are sexual offenders of all races so politicising the debate in this way does not help. Likewise politicising the debate between whether you like Sadiq Khan, Labour, Reform or the Tories again has sadly distorted a serious debate on crime with people automatically entrenching themselves in their respective camps without recognising there is an institutional issue of sexual offences not being properly investigated.
Current global politics and slime like the tate brothers have made people feel entitled to enact their lechery and violate others dignity.
Could it be related to tube ridership being the highest in the last 5 years?
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