West Yorkshire Police 'delighted' after trans hate crime reports triple in 24 months

"Our incredibly stupid plan that everyone except Susie told us was stupid is going great! No, you can't ask us about the managed zone in Leeds, that's not nice."

When DVAWG figures are being manipulated by only counting the first few reports, I really can't get behind the glee that a Police force is showing about this.

If three people report the same incident to the police, is this logged as three separate reports? I think it is... So in fact "tripling of reports" is a fairly meaningless statistic, apart from regarding public awareness that it is possible to report such concerns (which is not itself a bad thing, of course)

Ranking overall of police forces. Interesting that Suffolk is number 1.

Suffolk is 3rd in crimes detected. Presumably the good work done and standards set by Alan Caton is continuing

www.theguardian.com/observer/secondterm/table/0,8173,610617,00.html

Fighting oppression, with oppression.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Women talking on a message board is oppression but using the police force most renowned for misogyny in the entire country as a personal ideological enforcement team is no problemo?

Get a grip.

No, not2daysanta "spewing bile" if that's what you insist on calling it, about the fucking ridiculous way West Yorkshire police treat women, which is of a piece with how they have consistently treated women.

Is that ok with you? Do tell us what else you believe women (the cunty kind) should be concerned with, just so we know we're going about feministing correctly.

First link, WYP near the bottom of the league with a miserable 23% clear up rate

Second link, of the 42 forces inspected, 10 were found to require improvement on efficiency, including the Metropolitan Police, Nottinghamshire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.

I recently had to report a crime in West Yorkshire via 101. Before I could get through to menu to select the right option I was treated a pre-recorded message telling me that they are an LGBT friendly force and that I could talk to specific officers if I felt I needed to raise a hate crime.

I'm sure it's very reassuring for people to know that there is a supportive person they can talk to about such issues if needed, but the person who I spoke to about the crime against me didn't seem to give a crap. Got NFA'd within 2 days.

Sorry where is the ‘spewing bile’ exactly? I must have missed that.

Being scolded as "transphobes" stopped working a long time ago not2daysanta. You'll need a much more effective slur if you want to shut us up.

There was only one actual charge of transgender hate crime in West Yorkshire in 2017.

Interesting. So all the other reports are actually a waste of police time? Because they don't lead to a charge, let alone a conviction?

No wonder West Yorkshire Police don't have time to investigate burglaries and violent assaults if they're too busy chasing up reports of non-existent hate crimes.

There was only one actual charge of transgender hate crime in West Yorkshire in 2017.

And that seems likely to be part of a crime (like violence against the person for example). They don't say whether this person was convicted or not.

www.westyorkshire.police.uk/sites/default/files/foi/2018-03/foi_685-18_transgender_hate_crimes_march_2018.pdf

I wonder if WYP would ever reflect that a tripling of hate incidents might reflect rather poorly on them as a police force, rather than seeing it as a source of delight.

I can't imagine Cressida Dick of the Metropolitan Police crowing about how pleased she was that knife crime offences in London had tripled for example.

We live in interesting times.

Oh, that makes sense then. This forum is not for general Womens_Rights; it's for Women's Rights to speak disparagingly about trans people and LGBT hate crimes.

Fighting oppression, with oppression.

Got it.

Shouldn't they be horrified at the increase?

Why do you all care so much? It's difficult to view threads like this as anything other than transphobia.

What other goal could you possibly have? Sitting here spewing bile about every single mention of 'trans' in the media.

Could you not focus efforts on something positive? Rather than trying to marginalise another oppressed group.

If you switch "trans" with "migrants", you get a solid idea of how hateful you all sound in this thread.

Two posters on here have been interviewed by West Yorkshire police.

At least.

And didn't Susie Green appeal the CPS's decision not to charge Posie? I wonder if anything ever came of that.

I wonder how many of those were from Susie Green of Mermaids. Which is in West Yorkshire.

I know she's talked of contacting police on many occasions.

Also Mermaids contacted police when a teacher "misgendered" a pupil.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5429219/Charity-calls-police-teacher-misgenders-pupil.html

The Parliamentary Committee on Transgender Equality recommended that the police:
crack down on transphobia and
introduce a new hate crime where there is hostility towards someone's gender identity.

In other words self I/D. In other words, the inclusion of blue-haired non-binary people and straight blokes with beards calling thmselves misgendered ladies. No wonder the number of reports have increased. (Notice that there are no actual numbers or analysis of the types of incidents).

The police need to be instructed to roll back self i/d and take another look at the definition of transphobia if they are to retain public confidence.

Without numbers thats pretty meaningless eg from 1 report to 4 is "more than tripled" and probably all reported by one person

Also,.since when has the number of reports made said anything useful at all about a police force. Surely we need stats on the outcome of reports?