Remember this is a class issue, the police don’t feel that poor people deserve justice and that if you are poor you did this to yourself.
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Stuff like this makes my blood boil. How tf are a police force doing virtually nothing to help someone reporting *this?!*
I really don’t want to hate on police but I sometimes wonder what they’re there for.
It’s amazing how stuff like this still manages to happen. We’re an incredibly civilized nation, that is until we’re not
Survivor of street grooming here. Reported it to the police, went to therapy, and moved far, far away from where the abuse happened. I’m now an adult in a place where I feel safe.
Years later, if anything still has the power to make me feel worthless, it’s the semi-regular appearance of this same story. Girl is horribly abused. Girl goes to police. Police fail her. Again. And again. And again. Something like this makes the headlines every few months, and I know deep down that nothing has changed from when I was being abused.
I don’t just remember the violence. I remember the utter indifference of the adults around me too. Violent people can’t get away with it without people willing to look the other way. Being abused was horrible, but no one caring about what was happening to me? That scarred me too.
>She says authorities fail to understand that victims need protection wherever they come from. “If it happened to my daughter, I would think very, very carefully about whether I involved the police, because I think the damage victims suffer is often made ten times worse by the authorities that let them down.
As a victim of rape who now does activism in this space, I hear survivors say this all the time and I also feel that way. The investigation was *way* more traumatic than the incident itself.
I cannot stress how terribly I was treated by the police and the lasting impact it has had on my day to day life ever since.
They even brought my rapist to my house **four times**, completely unannounced, with no prior warning, despite it breaching his bail conditions and later a court ordered restraining order. One time they also tried to force me to speak to him on the phone despite that also breaching the conditions of the restraining order. They aren’t worried about looking racist. I believe the majority of them just aren’t bothered about protecting victims of rape and make no effort to treat them with any kind of sensitivity.
Sickening. People shouldn’t be getting away with these cruel depraved crimes. My heart really goes out.
Don’t worry everyone, with the government focus on police use of pronouns, i’m sure this’ll get sorted quickly.
I was once approached by a man in a white van, I was 19 but looked 14-15 at the time, he kept asking me to jump in the van to show him a certain address (it was the next road down). He was sweating horribly and wouldn’t stop pleading for me to get in the van. I took a photo of his face and number plate and reported it to the police and nothing was followed up…. He probably tried again and again until someone was snatched
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Remember this is a class issue, the police don’t feel that poor people deserve justice and that if you are poor you did this to yourself.
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Stuff like this makes my blood boil. How tf are a police force doing virtually nothing to help someone reporting *this?!*
I really don’t want to hate on police but I sometimes wonder what they’re there for.
It’s amazing how stuff like this still manages to happen. We’re an incredibly civilized nation, that is until we’re not
Survivor of street grooming here. Reported it to the police, went to therapy, and moved far, far away from where the abuse happened. I’m now an adult in a place where I feel safe.
Years later, if anything still has the power to make me feel worthless, it’s the semi-regular appearance of this same story. Girl is horribly abused. Girl goes to police. Police fail her. Again. And again. And again. Something like this makes the headlines every few months, and I know deep down that nothing has changed from when I was being abused.
I don’t just remember the violence. I remember the utter indifference of the adults around me too. Violent people can’t get away with it without people willing to look the other way. Being abused was horrible, but no one caring about what was happening to me? That scarred me too.
>She says authorities fail to understand that victims need protection wherever they come from. “If it happened to my daughter, I would think very, very carefully about whether I involved the police, because I think the damage victims suffer is often made ten times worse by the authorities that let them down.
As a victim of rape who now does activism in this space, I hear survivors say this all the time and I also feel that way. The investigation was *way* more traumatic than the incident itself.
I cannot stress how terribly I was treated by the police and the lasting impact it has had on my day to day life ever since.
They even brought my rapist to my house **four times**, completely unannounced, with no prior warning, despite it breaching his bail conditions and later a court ordered restraining order. One time they also tried to force me to speak to him on the phone despite that also breaching the conditions of the restraining order. They aren’t worried about looking racist. I believe the majority of them just aren’t bothered about protecting victims of rape and make no effort to treat them with any kind of sensitivity.
Sickening. People shouldn’t be getting away with these cruel depraved crimes. My heart really goes out.
Don’t worry everyone, with the government focus on police use of pronouns, i’m sure this’ll get sorted quickly.
I was once approached by a man in a white van, I was 19 but looked 14-15 at the time, he kept asking me to jump in the van to show him a certain address (it was the next road down). He was sweating horribly and wouldn’t stop pleading for me to get in the van. I took a photo of his face and number plate and reported it to the police and nothing was followed up…. He probably tried again and again until someone was snatched