I remember a disturbing incident about 10 years ago when I was swimming in my local swimming pool. A man touched me up as I was swimming. As in he touched my private parts in a stroking motion as he swam past in the opposite direction. A few minutes later, he did it again. I confronted him at the end of the lane and he was aggressively, and righteously indignant, so I complained about him to the reception staff as I left.
Wow, did that kick off. The receptionist called over the pool manager, who invited me into his office. He got very worked up and started saying did I want to call the police if I didn,t "withdraw my complaint. I simply kept reiterating what I said and so he phoned the police although I hadn't asked him to do that. Two police officers turned up, a man and a younger woman. The woman then started accusing me of wasting police time, threatened me with arrest for that if I did not withdraw my complaint. Would not listen to any kind of reason or logic that it was not me who had called the police. Very aggressive, very threatening. It reached a farcical stage when they asked me what my job was. "University lecturer" I said. "What do you lecture in?" "Law". Eventually, under coercion, I withdrew my complaint. My complaint to the manager of the leisure centre that someone had touched me intimately, not to the police, because I hadn't done that. The male police officer said absolutely nothing at all.
6 weeks later, a man was found to be filming children getting changed in that pool's changing rooms, using specially drilled holes. Then, miraculously, he ran outside and drove off in his car. Even more miraculously, none of the staff on reception were able to stop him or note down his car registration number, despite a concerned parent chasing him. The cctv trained on the car park wasn't working, and none of the staff in the big glass fronted building with the reception desk directly facing onto the car park thought to note down his registration number.
It still bothers me. It reached the local newspapers, he was never caught, and the very same swimming pool manager got a lot of publicity from giving interviews about how upset he was, how terrible it was, etc..
It still bothers me. The whole thing was one of the most disturbing incidents of my life, as I was clearly being lied to by people in certain positions of power and there was nothing that I could do about it. It was so bad that I saw no point in contacting the police after the filming incident to give a description of the man who had touched me or to complain about the strange behaviour of the centre manager.