Private Eye (Trigger Warning: Male Violence in lockdown)

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I have no words, this says it all.

Behind closed doors.

It does say it all.

I think it does say it all.

What would happen if there were a taskforce with the powers to identify Monckton-Smith's red flags and pro-actively go out and intervene?

Would this be perceived as nanny-state over-reaching or a nation that is paying due attention to the WHO-described public health menace of VAWG?

Sounds like Minority Report.

Wow that is powerful.

I can't be the only victim/survivor who has had help from the police but that help is pointless because there's no point them intervening if it makes you homeless. Unless and until there are genuinely safe places to go long term (own private space, not mixed use hostel in a high crime area) , the violence and abuse will continue. I don't think anything will change or get better because not enough people care and/or blame women for not wanting to leave one unsafe situation for another that's different but also unsafe, insecure, or intolerable.

Not really sure I get your post embarrassing.

I've read so many times on the news and on MN of women reporting stalking, violence etc and the police being useless.

There was a period, year before last maybe? When there were quite a few stories in the news about women who had reported multiple times and in the end we murdered.

Usual lessons learned response.

Just getting it taken seriously would be a step forward.

It was a discussion point - the red flags Monckton-Smith identifies call for a multi-disciplinary approach to identify them.

If VAWG or DV/IPV were addressed as the public health problems that they are, they might reflect a similarly MD team to synthesise a solution that meets needs of individuals and their circumstances. That would include relocation, housing, support (various types including housing, finance, personal/medical).

Something quite so overarching would attract criticisms and concerns about appropriateness. It doesn't even begin to address the level of research or understanding about the point at which it's appropriate to initiate contact with the parties and work with them.

I can think of many, many problems - I wonder what an appropriate range of solutions might look like - and what it would take for various authorities to be willing to fund them.

Well yes to proper support for those who need to leave and protection/ action being taken against the abusers.

All good.

No of course it won't be funded.

Look at the shitshow with the bedroom tax and women who had panic rooms put in by the council due to the serious danger they were in.