Sounds Extreme??
I agree but then the subject is extreme, if fact the last few months has opened my eyes on just how extreme and how desperate this subject is.
Women are not protected by the police - their only protection from the police are the glossy posters on police station walls, all my life I have been a hard working family man, my principles and virtues put the police and the justice system at the top of my list and I inherited that from my father who fought for this country.
I am what you call middle England, the solid rock that runs through this country, I vote, I strive to lead a good life, Ive never been in trouble, I employ 50 people in a vibrant business even though the country is in recession….
I always considered that the Police and MP’s whatever their political leaning were there for us in a crisis…
NOT SO!
Essex Police – Guilty
Douglas Carswell – Now doing better!!
CPS – Guilty
All failed in their duty to protect women from violent men but hope that it all gets swept into the abyss they have created, the one that sits behind the glossy posters on police station walls.
Well its made me sick and now I am going to make a campaign to raise this issue, there will soon be a blog site set up for this cause, it will be for all victims not just those close to me and my aim is to make it as big a voice as the knife crime website run by Ann Oakes Odger and supported since its start by us as a charity organisation.
The media is a powerful tool, the politicians – including the police chiefs like to play with it as they try and push their public relations but there is no sector of this industry as powerful as those webmasters large and small who serve the online digital space, this covers search engines such as Google, Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, then there is the network of good quality webmasters and webmarketeers, the people with the real power it is here that I will turn too when the domestic violence voice goes online.
I make a promise that there will be no angles to push High Position, this will not be for the PR of my company but to try and force the issue of violence on women to become a real priority in both how it is handled in the media and how those we trust in and who current fail those women react.
We can make a difference, it was the voice of the media that forced the hand on knife crime, the politicians just reacted, it took 3 years of lobbying with people such as Ann Odger spending each day of their lives pushing and pushing, well now the time has come to start again on another cause.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON WOMEN
If it takes years I don’t care, I have been shaken from my cosy life and shown what the other side can be like, there are so many people like my daughter who live day to day in fear of their life, in fear of a random set of circumstances that will pitch them in the same space as the violent thug, be that a town centre on a Saturday or walking down a road to get a lift home. The danger never leaves and fate seems to conspire to put women into the paths of these repeat offending violent men, the reason they are in constant danger is because the law allows them too walk the streets with complete confidence that they will not be punished.
This campaign has just started but the problem has been there for ever and people such as I should do more.
Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so! really great post.” I will be coming back regularly to read more and keep up to date on developments.
Local police hide behind desks and petty crime, they happily spend hours on easy crime and avoid the difficult stuff.
It seems they are incapable of gathering evidence unless there is a murder or a speeding offence but what about the bit in the middle.
This is swept under the carpet for sure and as long as politicians and the heads of the police (also politicians) have collusion then there can be no accountabilty.
Its like they are from the same seed just different hats, all are only interested in career growing and none will stand up for what the everyday people want.
What happened to principles and integrity in the police???
I agree Shaun. Like you, I have always put the justice system at the top of my tree and having a brother who served in the poilice for almost 30 years, have trusted them to protect the honest amongst us. Politicians are another matter. Whilst always suspicious of their personal motivations, in the good old days, they seemed to get most major decsioons right. Then casme IRAQ and latterly the expenses scandal, both of which, rather than seek to right their wrongs, their culture seeks to sweep the issues under the biggest carpet they can find – probably a carpet that we paid for!
I am glad my father is not around to see that the sacrifices he made for our country and from which he had to struggle through life, were largely in vain!
B