Brefugee · Yesterday 06:38
You mentioned Gracie Spinks and others have brought up cases of Police not taking women seriously. DrLouiseJMoody mentions that the cop in charge is a woman.
It puts me in mind of something which happened to my wife, a couple of years ago. She'd come home from work after shopping and was a bit tight on time, to collect our daughter from school. She'd opened the front door and was rushing to the car and back with shopping.
As she was about to leave, the dog came up the street, followed by an angry man. He called her all sorts of names and said that the dog had pood outside his gate. She apologised and said that if course she would pick it up. (She always does, this was an aberration).
She was hurrying down and he said, "Fucking run, bitch!" As she was removing it, he threatened her with violence.
We have a local Police pop in place, I went round and they told me to ring the non emergency line, so I did, but they wouldn't take a report from me, so I gave the phone to my wife.
The person on the phone was a female Police officer - she identified herself as PC "Smith."
Over quite a long conversation, I could hear that she was brash and dismissive. She concluded by telling my wife, "It's not a Police matter, tell your husband to go and sort him out."
Yes, "sort him out."
I did go down, his girlfriend came to the window and said he wasn't in, even though I could see him through the blinds. I was quite relieved, I had no idea who he was, or if he would answer the door with a knife.
I mean, if even women cops are unsympathetic to women, what hope is there?