Audit finds several police forces incorrectly cancelled rape investigations

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The latest audit of police forces has found that several cancelled investigations into rape when they should have continued, usually because officers didn't understand terminology or the law they were meant to be upholding.

In Hampshire more than half of all the reports of rape in 2018 were thrown out when they shouldn't have been.

www.hampshirelive.news/news/hampshire-news/hampshire-police-cancelled-sexual-offences-4634100.amp?__twitter_impression=true

These are the same police forces that are on social media posting about pronouns, or this weekend about respecting the 'asexual and aromantic' community, even though there's never been a report of a crime committed because someone is asexual in British history

These are the same police forces that are on social media posting about pronouns, or this weekend about respecting the 'asexual and aromantic' community, even though there's never been a report of a crime committed because someone is asexual in British history

When has anyone been mistreated or discriminated against on this basis? It simply doesn't happen unless we are talking about intimate partner violence, but that has many different causes. And what would not respecting that community even look like? Nobody can tell that someone walking down the street is asexual or aromantic.

Simply appalling.

And look at number 2 on the list. Humberside's finest, known for checking your thinking.

Also Humberside Police #2 on the list are the ones who targeted Harry Owl for his 'wrongthink'.

It would be interesting to see how many of the top entries on this list have been Stonewalled.

and, while I think everyone should be afforded equal respect in their lives, I really don't want to know whether they would like to have regular sex or not - what are the police hoping to achieve with this message? Will they be doing a shout out for respecting car enthusiasts next?

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Also Humberside Police #2 on the list are the ones who targeted Harry Owl for his 'wrongthink'.

It would be interesting to see how many of the top entries on this list have been Stonewalled.

and, while I think everyone should be afforded equal respect in their lives, I really don't want to know whether they would like to have regular sex or not - what are the police hoping to achieve with this message? Will they be doing a shout out for respecting car enthusiasts next?

It is very cheap virtue signalling. To address the problem of rapes which are ignored requires staff and resources.

Gloucestershire? Not sure the correlation between with transgender, pronouns stands up there. I can't remember m/any such posts. Then again their transgender page has been removed recently.

They are the police force who 30+ years ago chased down my rapist as he fled to the Channel Isles. I am surprised by that statistic, might start having a snoop locally!

I'm not the least bit surprised to hear this. It happened to one of my friends.

What the fuck is happening in Hampshire? Are they all massive misogynists or just terminally stupid? How fucking appalling.

It'll be an absolute certainty that those who are destroying rape victims lives even further will be those who are now the 'Thought Police' in their local areas.

gardenbird48

Also Humberside Police #2 on the list are the ones who targeted Harry Owl for his 'wrongthink'.

Police forces who are actually acting illegally by pushing political agendas.

I'll say it, and I'll say it again and again:

There is Pulitzer Prize in it for any investigative journalist who investigates the local councils, councillors, police officers and police forces in the UK.

gardenbird

Looking at the list of members of Stonewall's Diversity Champions www.stonewall.org.uk/diversity-champions-members 7 out of the worst 10 are.

TheShoesa
That list is shocking - all those agencies of the state signed up to an organisation that misrepresents the law and campaigns to remove women's rights .
I'd go so far to suggest there's a direct correlation between all the energy and £££ devoted to Stonewall and the lack of rape prosecutions and mangling of the laws in relation to women.

Misogyny for the 21st century. While they obsess about pronouns and ensuring women are shamed into sacrificing single sex spaces, they ignore research that shows, for example, the eight stages present in almost all DV homicide cases.

It's not even unusual for police to regard the victim as a false complainant in cases where she ends up murdered.

The police are quite clearly systemically and structurally misogynist. Where's the inquiry into that?

This might be the kind of thing where it would be a good idea to try and really focus in on what is going on in terms of work training. Because this looks very much like something where you could hold the feet to the fire in a very objective way.

Essentially you have people who are needing more training in their actual jobs and aren't getting it. I assume this is the same as with many other jobs, people need to keep updated and revisit the regulations and such in order to work effectively. Fine, but they clearly are not getting it and it is affecting their work. How can they justify all this secondary training if that is the case?

This isn’t just a matter of the cancelling the investigation. This is an audit of cancelled crimes i.e. a victim reports a crime and the police take a report but later, having looked at it or after initial investigations say, actually that’s not a crime. So it isn’t included in their crime figures and the victims are told - we’ll you weren’t actually sexually assaulted. This is worse on one level (Police telling someone they weren’t raped when they were is pretty awful) but should affect far fewer cases than if it were about dropped investigations more widely.

Also, bit pedantic but Hampshire only incorrectly cancelled 3 out of 19 rapes, not half (all, it would appear, because officers incorrectly decided intoxication meant it wasn’t actually rape). The half figure is for sexual assault in general, not rape which appears to be slightly more carefully considered, though still very poorly handled.