Maybe?
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When I was director of public prosecutions, one in 10 victims [of domestic abuse] was coming forward and nine out of 10 wasn’t. We were all focused on what we do in the criminal justice system quite rightly,” Starmer said.
“But the real problem was that very many victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, didn’t feel like a tell anyone about it. And I think that does mean profound change, I tried to change the criminal justice bit, you know, how do you actually prosecute these cases, how do you link up with the police?
“There’s a step before that, which I don’t think we properly tackled or got right which is: where’s the safe space for victims to actually go to discuss what’s happened to them? And the idea that a victim of domestic violence or sexual violence is going to walk into a police station and report what’s happened to them is so unlikely that we shouldn’t have it as the model anymore.”
Starmer said he remembers vividly when he called in specialist trainers at the DPP to underline why safe spaces were needed.
“They had a group of about a hundred staff in a training programme. And then they said to the staff ‘turn to the person next to you and tell them the best sexual experience you’ve ever had’. And of course everyone blushes red and doesn’t know what to do. And then they said ‘imagine how difficult it would be to tell someone the worst’. And it really brought it home to people.
So if KS sees the value in safe spaces - can he see why women may need safe spaces away from males - irrespective of how nice those individual males are, or how they may identify or ‘feel like’ women themselves? He’s never going to say that out loud right now, obviously.....but maybe just maybe he does actually get this.
(The typo errors are original; apparently no one proof reads anything any more!)