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What’s gone wrong with British policing?

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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The Misogynistic View of Police Officers

From the very start of policing, I had this inkling that what I was witnessing was not only fascinating, but also really important. The paperwork around domestic abuse is deliberately very intensive because the Met police recognises that it has traditionally handled those very badly. It puts a lot of almost paperwork style checks in place to make sure that you ask all the questions that you properly investigate and document. But that makes officers even more reluctant to attend. Domestic abuse situations are attended something like two and a half minutes more slowly than other emergency calls. You felt that in the banner, the call would come out of domestic abuseCall would come out and they came out with just numbing frequency. And so there

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