Women Need To Be Streetwise About The Powers Of Arrest And Learn Legal Process....apparently.

[sp1814]

Is the criticism currently being levelled at Commissioner Philip Allott justified, or is he simply speaking common sense?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58762029

I think few people, if confronted by a policeman would be sure of their legal footing. Seems like an example of victim-blaming.

[naomi24]

You've just repeated yourself.

[youngmafbog]

Looks like it Naomi.

[andy-hughes]

I have - I clicked off my first answer and assumed it had not been received, so I re-typed it, only to find it had gone through after all.

[Peter Pedant]

// And to return to the OP - not having Police representatives spouting victim-blaming garbage like this would represent a good start.//

erm having gone back over what the divine Andie said - to see if he copies and saves his immortal prose ,
I am struck by one thing

the advice is NOT victim blaming garbage. The advice is 'check if unsure' and that is not garbage andie it is good advice. The garbage bit is who said it and the cirucmstances ( it was a p'liceman ) and the idea it was the complete answer

accuracy is all - even on AB !

[Peter Pedant]

yeah foo back to AB speak
the above comment: can you say something is garbage if it is not?

(hmm well they do everyday on AB ! ter daaah )

[Ellipsis]

He's finally resigned ... not before time ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58915325

[Mamyalynne]

The right decision.

[andy-hughes]

One less idiot in a position of influence.

But what are we getting? A 'special' number for women to call when they feel unsafe.

Wonderful.

Let's make it a woman's responsibility to keep safe.

That way, we can keep not addressing the root cause of threats to women - the continued acceptance of misogyny as simply being the way it is, not that we should look at educating a generation of boys to grow into men with proper respect.