Just remind me... this is the "managed zone" where local women can't go out to the shops for fear of being kerb-crawled by men, where women not in prostitution have been dragged off the street into cars and raped by punters.
Christ on a bike. If this was an "independent" report by the University of Huddersfield's Applied Criminology and Policing Centre, what this tells me is there's something rotten to the core about the current state of academia.
From the newspaper article:
Thirty people, including 12 sex workers, three police officers and two councillors, were interviewed as part of the review and the report says that almost 75 per cent of the interviewees said the scheme "should remain but needed to change in some way".
They also invited 1,940 Holbecks households to take part in a survey about the Managed Approach, but only 120 (6 per cent) responded.
The review described this response rate as "very poor" and said "the findings cannot be taken as representative of the people of Holbeck".
A sample of 30! And 40% of that sample were sex workers [sic] i.e. people with a vested financial interest in the system. And when the researchers realised that that their attempt to get a wider sample had led to a very poor response rate, rather than attempt to find a better way to engage with the wider community, they stopped trying.
Fuck me, that has to be some of the worst research methodology I've ever seen. They should be hanging their heads in shame.