Re:Violence against women and girls a national emergency, sa...
by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:14PM
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It sounds good that they're making more effort to address this, though I only recently read about the Baird enquiry on Greater Manchester Police in which some women reporting abuse to the police were being arrested, strip searched and left in solitary confinement if they annoyed officers. There was some speculation that it was related to trying to fill arrest quotas.
> A damning report has found officers at Greater Manchester Police are abusing their power - making unlawful arrests, unlawful and demeaning strip searches, sometimes treating victims as perpetrators, and traumatising those who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence.
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> She says: "Each case illustrates a gross and perplexing imbalance between the police response to the complainant's behaviour and the response, if any, to the perpetrators abuse."
https://news.sky.com/story/greater-manchester-police-report-...
> A damning report has found officers at Greater Manchester Police are abusing their power - making unlawful arrests, unlawful and demeaning strip searches, sometimes treating victims as perpetrators, and traumatising those who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence.
...
> She says: "Each case illustrates a gross and perplexing imbalance between the police response to the complainant's behaviour and the response, if any, to the perpetrators abuse."