fergieisold
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Hopefully that trend continues. I’d hope nothing like what I heard 15 years ago in Victoria park student area happens now. We were walking in a group and a police van was patrolling - we assumed that because of the reported rape in the area it was because of that.Well I'm not sure of the wisdom of taking one piece of anecdotal evidence as proof.
Things do seem to be improving and it's probably not all officers who aren't sympathetic and I don't think it's that they're aren't following up on all of the cases.
However, there's still seems to be an intensivity in how cases are dealt with or an impression given to people reporting these crimes by some officers that it isn't being taken seriously.
The authors of the survey do say that there has been a more positive experience in the past 6 months but doesnt say by how much.
We asked the police in the van and they didn’t know anything about it and replied “you sure she wasn’t just drunk?”.
still sticks in my mind to this day that.