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Will Women and Minorities Ever Be Safe in the Hands of the Police? KENZA GARMZI | CONTENT WRITER
Furthermore, North Yorkshire commissioner Philip Allott reacted by saying women should be more ‘streetwise’, which prompted anger from MPs and their constituents alike. Institutional misogyny is a huge problem in the police force. According to Byline Times and the BBC, 52% of London officers found guilty of sexual misconduct kept their jobs in 2016- 2020 and 800 domestic abuse allegations have been made against officers and staff since 2017. Adding to the rife misogyny of the force, several male officers were found to have shared material with Couzens over WhatsApp which included sexist, racist, and violent messages. Not all of the officers being investigated have been suspended yet.
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olice power is a subject that didn’t receive much mainstream public voicing until the Black Lives Matter movement gained media attention. It is a known fact that the powers of the police and judicial system have been weaponized against marginalized groups during various civil rights movements to suppress praxis. Ever since George Floyd’s death in 2020, the messages ‘defund the police’, ‘abolish the police’ and ‘ACAB’ have become popular slogans for demonstrations worldwide as the frequency of these cases indicate a broken system which should be overhauled. Many on the right critiqued this slogan, branding the calls as anarchy, as well as on the left where Keir Starmer condemned demands to defund the police as ‘nonsense’. But when policing and prisons are expanded more and more every year, with no benefit to crime rates, something is going wrong.
Following the tragic death of Sarah Everard, women have become increasingly distrustful Source: Tabitha Turner of the police. Sarah’s killer had kidnapped her under the guise of an arrest to which the
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To watch unchallenged discrimination happen in an organization that is supposed to protect all people has seriously damaging and dangerous consequences.
Met’s response included advice to women to ‘shout out to a passer-by, run into a house, knock on a door, wave a bus down, or call 999’.
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