New Fair Cop Report: The Invisible Strand

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How did we get into this mess, where noble efforts to combat ‘hate’ have made misogyny hard baked into policing? And how do we get out of this?

Report now out.
#TheInvisibleStrand

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We make the following recommendations and will send a copy of this report to every PCC, the Home Secretary and the
@EHRC

We will write to the
@EHRC
in the following terms

We will remind the PCCs that they have an unfettered power to sack Chief Constables
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Yes Officer | Sarah Phillimore | The Critic Magazine

And that police forces which empower a serving officer to make statements like this are police forces going dangerously off the rails.

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We could not find a single comment in support of Amy Tapping. Most were outraged - or terrified.

Enough is enough. If you find the report helpful, please amplify. Please send it to your MP, please start a conversation. We are extremely grateful for the courage of the women who spoke out for this report - including
@LisaTownsend
who wrote a powerful foreword.

Peers in the House of Lords are currently considering The Government’s flagship policing bill: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. The legislation places a duty on local authorities, police and other agencies to tackle “serious violence” in their areas.

But when defining what that means, it does not explicitly name domestic homicide, domestic abuse or sexual violence. It's unacceptable and inexcusable that the Government would introduce a bill that explicitly includes violence against property and threats of violence, but NOT violence against women and girls, or domestic abuse.

Write to Baroness Williams, Minister of State for the Home Office in the Lords with responsibility for countering extremism and hate crime to support the Bertin Amendments, and end Police misogyny.

CPS statistics show that violence against women & girls is 140% higher than violence against all the other vulnerable groups combined, and amidst the backdrop of an "epidemic of violence" against Women (as highlighted by the recent HMICFRS Report), we can no longer continue to give the police the option to choose to ignore the plague of domestic and sexual violence against Women.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tackling-domestic-violence-is-a-national-issue-6v76bl8wr