AIBU to expect the Police to investigate a woman being assaulted by a customer at work?

This is why people are turning towards the likes of Reform. Most people are just tired of watching Britain disintegrating. That's not to say that Reform will DO anything but people are basically protest voting at this point. We all know something is rotten and needs rooted out in our country.

Not surprised my 12 year old cousin and her 2 female friends had a knife pulled on them when she was walking home from youth group. She knew the boy who did it and everything. The police seemed to expect my aunt to feel sorry for the boy as he has a terrible home life. Not further action has been taken

If the police can smooth it over and brush it under the carpet they will . They have to resolve matters rather than go to court as proceeding cost ££££

I work in retail
I've been assaulted,sexually, 7 times (over 8 years)
I've been punched,spat at,groped,flashed at,had men threaten to rape me and only last week,a young lad of about 15/16 asked if 'you'd like to see a hairy ball sack' and then showed me his hairy ball sack
The police have done nothing (if they've bothered to come out) even though it's all on cctv-very clear cctv
On one occasion,the (male) officer sighed and said 'well,what do you expect us to do?'
He wasnt happy when I replied 'your job'

I've been a victim of dv-out of 80+ beatings the police took me seriously (a female officer) and arrested him
£80 fine (that he could pay off at £2.50 a week)
Rest of the time,they'd drop him off at the train station (around the corner to my house) and drive off
Of course,he'd come back and they'd repeat everything while making it clear they thought it was a waste of their time
It's a joke-i only got rid of him when he got bored of me

Women are hated

She already put in a complaint and they dismissed it. It's taken the incident blowing up on social media, several months on, for the police to lift a finger.

I've also experienced the MET failing to investigate an assault (on someone else) so now I carry things for my own protection. It's not like I'm going to get stopped and searched, and even if I have to use them I'd rather run the apparently slim risk of being arrested than rely on the police to help me.

I hope she’s putting in a complaint. What’s the point of the Police if not to serve and protect. I agree yes we do all make mistakes. However assaulting some is a deliberate act and not a mistake.
There are many times were the Police has demonstrated their lack of care for women. For example Look what happened about 16 years ago with Fiona Pilkington and her daughter Frankie. The Police didn’t a shit then either. She was told to “ignore them” after getting harassed by gangs of thugs. . Next thing both her (Fiona) and Frankie were dead. She’d taken both her and her daughters life by setting fire to her car. If she was prepared to put her daughter and herself through tall that unimaginable agony it doesn’t bare thinking about how bad her emotional pain must have been.

I’ve only just read about this - absolutely shocking. Completely unacceptable response from the police. There’s also much more to be said about the reprobate that attacked her but we’re no longer allowed to talk about that publicly.

My Dad was attacked in his taxi and had his takings stolen. My elderly father stumbled into the police station with blood on his forehead, all dizzy & confused. Police said "prove it"
Did absolutely nothing

They need a good proper beating men like that!

Karina

That’s disgusting, but well done for the chef for throwing that scumbag down the stairs!
Those men behaving like that are sexual degenerates, total scum of the earth!
I have zero faith in the police.
I think all women should learn self defence martial arts. In fact, I think it should be obligatory in school for girls from the age of 5.
No one wants to admit, that there is a MASSIVE problem with a lot of men, their behaviour, towards women.
It needs to be spoken about and dealt with.

we also need a society where more people react, like that chef. Barge in, interfere, help and teach those perpetrators a lesson.
Stop them, and get rid of them.
People need to be more proactive and help and react against such disgusting men and their behaviour.

Karina

Today I saw her explain the details of what happened, the police are investigating

I know this isn't a particularly progressive stance, but I miss the days when if you behaved like this the police would take you out the back and hand your ass to you in an alleyway. Paperwork and bureaucracy has unfortunately stopped real time justice being served. It's also proven under effective against men like this.

That poor waitress. She deserves so much better.

Fuckimg scum bag. That poor waitress just trying to do her job.

Me and OH were punched and kicked by a customer, out on a fucking tag, and police refused to arrest.

Police don't give a fuck about anyone

Doesn’t surprise me at all. I rang the police while a shoplifter had hold of my manager and was hitting her, swinging her around etc and the response was we don’t come out for shoplifters! She ended up in hospital, we had witnesses, cctv and a name and address for the attacker and they still weren’t interested!

Men do really do hate us 😢 that poor waitress. Inaction by the police is disgraceful.

The police are horrible to women. And actually dangerous. I've been through DV bad met many survivors and some of the stories of police is horrific. Man beats woman so bad she's hospitalised for over a week and the police drop the child witness to the man who just beat mum up and gave him her address (she had moved house to hide).

20 years ago I remember being sat in my car outside a nightclub waiting to pick someone up and a couple men started shouting hey sexy etc at me beckoning me out the car. I locked it and they started climbing on the bonnet gyrating and waving their croches at me through the windscreen saying I'm missing out etc. Literally on the other side of the road were two police watching and doing absolutely nothing. They could see me looking at them and they walked off.

I have had police tell me I have to wait in my then ex partners house because he ran off without his key and I had to make sure he wasn't locked out. I was not his gf- I had stupidly gone round to stop him killing himself in my young ignorance. I said I didn't any to wait he's violent he's been to prison for beating his previous gf up it's not safe I should not have come but he said he was going to hang himself if I didn't and they said well they won't wait and if I leave i will have locked him out of his own home which I am not allowed to do. They left.

I've had police refuse to look at cctv of dad violently dragging screaming dd off and hurting her. Because it was court orders contact so they were not interested. She used to come home with marks no one gave a shit.

And yet I've been asked to give my fingerprints because my parents house was burgled. Wealthy 5 bed house in a desirable village and the man of the house called the police. Just a £500 ring gets nicked and a broken window and they had a full forensic dust and listened to my mother over a cup of tea for 3 hours. I had a break in by my violent ex he completely trashed the house and they said there was no point looking into anything. Refused to dust for print and give me evidence I needed to keep my child safe.

I don't tell my kids to find a police person to help if they get lost. I say find a mother with children.

The video footage was shocking. Inaction by the met was equally shocking.

So much talk about an epidemic of violence against women and girls and yet this crime (with compelling evidence) goes investigated and earlier this week the news reported that, in December last year, a child rapist was given a suspended sentence because of prison over crowding.

We're on our own, it doesn't look like any government intends to take it seriously.