English media: Every hour a new case of rape is reported in London

According to Isna, the London police published new statistics of crimes committed in London, especially rape, on Sunday evening.

According to these statistics, every hour, a new case of rape is reported in London. So that in 2023, the London police have faced more than 8,800 rape cases, that is, 24 rapes per day.

On the other hand, the British media “BBC”, which is affiliated with the royal family of this country, accessed the data of the London police in line with the freedom of information law and announced in a report: “More than 19,000 sexual assaults have been reported to the police.”

This statistic has increased by 14% in the last 5 years, reaching almost 20,000 sexual assault reports in 2023. According to the BBC, every 26 and a half minutes, a rape is reported to the London police.

In this regard, a social crisis center in London, referring to the statistics published by the police and the BBC, while describing these statistics as “dangerous and shocking statistics” called for immediate changes in the social structure of England.

According to this center, only one out of every six women who are victims of rape report this crime.

On the other hand, according to the British police, more than 4 thousand 300 minor children have been raped in 2023.

According to “Ian Critchley”, head of the Child Protection Council in the National Police, the cause of the significant increase in child abuse in the UK is “toxic online culture” and the spread of pornographic films.

Police and authorities also attribute this increase to frequent reporting of violations. According to these statistics, accusations of sexual crimes have increased significantly in recent years. There were 818 charges in 2018, which dropped to 800 the following year, but by 2023 it had risen to more than 1,400.

In August, the Home Office announced that rape offenses leading to charges would take the longest to be investigated.

After a series of high-profile incidents of violence against women by London’s Metropolitan Police officers, the issue of public trust in the police has come under increased scrutiny. A poll conducted in April found that only 4 in 10 people in England said they trusted the police, with the capital’s police scoring the lowest. A total of 657 Metropolitan Police officers were investigated for sexual abuse, domestic abuse or a combination of both last year.

Also in August, British officials warned that women and girls in the country were suffering from “epidemic” levels of violent crime.

So that in 2022-2023, more than 20% of the one million crimes in England will be violence against women and girls. According to these data, at least one in 12 women are victims of gender-based violence crimes each year, including rape, stalking, harassment, and online harassment.

Last year, the UK government classified violence against women and girls as a national threat to public safety, and police forces were told to prioritize their response to it in the same way as organized crime.

Thousands of police officers have been newly trained to investigate assaults and other sexual crimes in the past year, according to Al Jazeera.

However, this report states that the scale of this violence is so great that law enforcement alone cannot deal with it. It is estimated that one out of every 20 people in this country commits violence against women and girls every year, and the actual number is significantly higher.

The report cites preliminary data showing that the number of arrests increased by 25 percent from 2019 to 2022.

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