Women have been let down in London. There’s been a lot of talk about women’s safety, but frighteningly little action. It’s time we changed that. There’s no other way to say it: the situation is grim. Violence against women in our city has increased while trust in the police has plummeted.
The Met is in special measures for the first time, in part because of horrific scandals that saw a serving police officer exploit his position to murder Sarah Everard. So many of us feel that our concerns and fears would not be taken seriously by the police. Some actively fear the police, and I’m not surprised.
