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

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sp1814 | 14:20 Fri 01st Oct 2021 | News
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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.
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danny - // Women need to be streetwise to a certain extent ... // And that statement simply adds to my argument. Why do women have to be 'streetwise to a certain extent', when men clearly do not? And is that acceptable? My point is that they should no more have to be streetwise' than any men, and that society thinks it's OK to confirm that they should, is what is wrong...
19:03 Sat 02nd Oct 2021
oh come on vulko shape up - get real

if you were a greenham leddy outside your RAF station ( yes yes I know there are obvious differences ) and said to the MP - "excuse me missewer I dont think youre a p'liceman" and gave him a pepper squirt - - what do you think would happen

no really .... what?
o come on
the BA isnt mad enough to be BA
this is AB and there are standards you know !
"There should be an immediate law that all women be allowed to carry pepper spray and allowed to use it if she is stopped by anybody she doesn't know."

It's much more likely than not that any woman stopped by copper will not know the copper - are you seriously suggesting they should be allowed to spray the copper in the face with pepper spray upon being stopped?

That's number 7 on my list of unfeasible suggestions.
If I am included in your reply, Vulcan you have slightly misunderstood me.
Sarah did think she was being arrested and may have complied thinking she had done something wrong and he was within his rights as a policeman.
At one time I would have done the same. If this were to happen to me now I would be far, far from compliant. I'd hope that my violent resisting of arrest would attract enough attention to save me or perhaps deter him.
Were he genuine for some reason and I was arrested for resisting arrest then so be it.
I agree with the rape alarm. A must now for every woman. My daughter will be pleased. In her teens I made her carry one of those little plastic pots of pepper if she was out at night.
One charity has suggested that if approached by a solitary policeman women may insist that a female officer or two extra male officers he called before submitting to arrest.
Deskdiary, why not, the police have brought this situation on themselves. What would you rather have, a few policemen with sore eyes or another woman tortured beyond belief?
Allott should be sacked - despite his apology & attempted retraction he has shown himself to be totally unsuitable to be involved with policing. END OF!
How sad that this monster has caused women to lose confidence in the police. What a dreadful situation.
Why not Vulcan?

Does it really need explaining why not?
Trouble is there are also men who pretend to be police, either stopping women drivers, or presenting a fake warrant card. How many of us know what a real one looks like. No amount of asking for proof will help in this situation. A small can of Elnett is legal btw.
19:22 totally agree.

Personally I don’t think single male officers should be allowed to stop single females at night in the dark.
Being realistic, the likelihood of an incident like this happening again is very unlikely.

This doesn't mean that any of us can be complacent. My interactions with the police have always been positive and I have been treated with respect and courtesy.

Maybe my mum had a point about carrying a brick in my handbag.

He must have to Phil Allott of holes his thick gob has dug for him ... let's hope he falls in this one as someone hits him on the back of the head with his own shovel. Metaphorically, of course ...
What concerns me about this idiot, is his attitude towards women, which simply underlines the attitudes towards women in society.

An innocent woman has been brutalised and murdered by a serving officer, and this buffoon is all but saying she asked for it.

In a wider contaxt, his attitude reinforces the ongoing attitude that it is women who are responsible for their own safety, and they have to wacth where they go, how they dress, the general uspoken provocations to the opposite sex that obviously shout out 'What are you waiting for - come on and assault me!!!'.

What should be happening, is a wholscale upgrade in the education of young men, who should be being taught respect and equality with women, and not the idea that they are 'after-it strumpets who work on your uncontollable urges, so it's not your fault'.

Women are always being told, and here we are hearing them being told again - you have to be safe, you have to be careful, you have to watch out ...

NO.

Men have to be tought repsect and restraint and courtesy and equality.

And no it is not up to a woman to 'protect' herself, it's up to you to see her an equal and treat her accordingly, and not imagine that by virtue of where she is and what she is wearing, she is fair game for your inclination to try a little light sexual battery.

Unless we stop this ridiculous attitude that rape is simple an occuptonal hazard for a woman walking alone at night, assault and rape and murder will continue, because we are not addressing the source and the cause.

Rape is not the result of women in the wrong place wearing the wrong clothing, it's the result of a society that does not encourage men to look at women as the same species as them with the same rights and protections they enjoy.

Start there, and stop making it womens' fault.

It never was and never will be.

Oh, and sack this idiot for perpetrating these horrendous attitudes over a radio station's airwaves.

He should not be 'withdrawing and apologising', he should be educated enough not to isssue such garbage in the first place.
Deskdiary, what is your solution to enable woman to walk safely on their own?
Police officers should only arrest in two's and preferably with one being female. This poor girl had no chance though as even if she did resist arrest he would've been stronger than her and overpowered her anyway.

No one should ever feel unsafe to go out on the street at night but most of us do and for reasons like this, Sabina Nessa and millions of other cases throughout history.
I don’t know what the answer is Vulcan, which is why I said at 18.19 I don’t know what the answer is, I also said I wish I did know.

I do however know what the wrong answers are, which is why I know spraying pepper unprovoked into the face of a copper is a wrong answer.

Don’t get me wrong, what this animal did is utterly evil, but 99.9999% of coppers are not the same as this aberration of a human.
tigger - // No one should ever feel unsafe to go out on the street at night but most of us do and for reasons like this, Sabina Nessa and millions of other cases throughout history. //

I can only repeat my point - until we stop viewing women 'protecting themselves' because being attacked is simply an occupational hazard of being out at night, as unchangeable as getting wet when it rains, attacks will continue.

We don't need more 'protection' for women, we need more education for men!!!
deskdiary - // I don’t know what the answer is, I also said I wish I did know. //

I know exactly what the answer is - it is laid out in my post at 20.18.

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