Domestic Violence: The Times investigates

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The Times have a series of investigative articles today about arrest rates for DV plummeting. Apparently 1 in 5 of women murdered by their partners had already been in contact with the police. There are at least 5 articles but here's share tokens for two of them:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/more-abuse-fewer-arrests-the-domestic-violence-figures-from-stretched-police-smz73f7gp?shareToken=f6c32f2e2990125f918006921ca0ac08

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/more-abuse-fewer-arrests-the-domestic-violence-figures-from-stretched-police-smz73f7gp?shareToken=3d240a481f93e4e6252e1f2687dbf518

It's great that the Times is looking into this, but the facts in that article are depressing.

What's particularly depressing is that they apparently don't have time for policing domestic violence but they do have time to follow up on someone reporting hurty feelz from something they've read on twitter including sending officers out.

(and thanks for the share token to that article OP - you've done the same article twice btw.... so important worth posting twice though I reckon)

Indeed Ineed
The police's priorities at times seem totally skewed. The London homicide figures are alarming:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-sixth-of-london-homicides-are-linked-to-violence-against-women-td9ntsmmv?shareToken=80d8c225696bad05178e02e2a6468da9

Damn. At least I've shared another one.

The Times really do report issues of concern to women - not what I initially expected when I left the Guardian. I've been really impressed.

I got a Facebook ban for asking police Scotland how they planned to keep DV victims safe if they chose to report.

I was ignored over and over again, so I kept asking. Every time they posted a shiny new "initiative" I asked about how women and children would be protected from abusers, given that conviction rates and sentences are beyond woeful.

Still haven't had a reply. They don't give a fuck.

That last link didn't open for me...

I'll give some of them a go

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-in-five-women-killed-by-their-partners-had-contacted-the-police-nc009nggl?shareToken=b64f896aa5a1c091cd86cbd65484ea2e

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/victim-calls-for-register-of-abusers-g70fnwj3s?shareToken=efc0ee334314e229c59e08683c772921

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/new-approach-stretches-beyond-crime-to-culture-grfwbn92x?shareToken=6c2457d5bac0e0ed99ddeb4a8ba0ac80

The next story is the one linked upthread, then this is the one that wouldn't open for me

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-sixth-of-london-homicides-are-linked-to-violence-against-women-td9ntsmmv?shareToken=76f05a75a72ddc8cc4a879a55af5eee4

Thank you Eccles