Leeds / West Yorkshire and injustices against women

[breastfeedingclownfish]

Time and time again, injustices and crimes against women and girls occur in Leeds and West Yorkshire.

Can we compile a list here? Obviously there's Saville and Mesmac, the enabling of prostitution on the streets, West Yorkshire Police going after Posie. And Rotherham.

Leeds is also the home of Mermaids, and it was Susie Green who made the complaint about Posie to West Yorkshire police, for being 'deliberately truthful' about Susie travelling to Thailand in order for her 16 years old child to have sexual reassignment surgery.

(Remember the Mumsnet guidelines, so that the thread will stand for reference)

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Who was Home Secretary in 2008? Apparently police forces were sent info which stated girls such as these, were to be treated as if they were actively engaging in this stuff.

It was Jackie Smith!

Home Secretary between 2007 and 2009. Unbelievable!

I listened to today's reports in utter horror, too.

You don't have to look very hard to find reports like this (I take issue with the headline's phrasing btw; totally unacceptable) :

www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/former-west-yorkshire-police-detective-s-child-porn-shame-1-4712857

Or this:

Yet another former WYP officer accessing images of child abuse

WTF is going on?

Umm do any of you actually live in Leeds?

Wyp are poor when it comes to women, track record not great. But I’m not sure the rest is particularly different to any other city?

Leeds originated the Reclaim the Night movement, there’s a variety of excellent orgs in the city working to support women. It’s a bit more complex of a picture than a google search.

If this thread was retitled ‘West Yorkshire police and their inglorious history re women’ I’d be all in agreement.

Sally Hines, arguably the main academic promoter of the trans movement in the UK, is at University of Leeds.
herriotts.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/the-usual-suspects-sally-hines/