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The UK failed grooming gang victims by not seeing ‘children as children’
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Didn't they fail them by being extremely racist and saying that brown people can't help themselves? I think this is downplaying the problem.
They used the "we didn't want to be seen as racist" excuse to ignore the problem because they were misogynistic arseholes who ignored girls they saw as "sluts".
Like the police were ever afraid to be racist.
Some of it still looks a little like corruption to me.
There's a huge report on this with more detail than anyone could reasonably read, somewhere way back in my comment history on Reddit. The way the problem was moved off to cross force specialised teams and then sat on is very odd, but could just be disorganisaton
At the very least, CYA. It was well over a decade ago, but.
I vaguely remember comments about the force's post investigation not wanting to be racist in suspecting gangs. Being little more than ignoring the fact the teen girls had no option to consent. While ignoring the threat or fear as the motive when they refused to testify. Just assuming the girls were involved in underage prostitution willingly. This attitude as I remember increased the fear in these victims as the police became a threat that just returned the girls, rather than a potential solution.
While actually ignoring teen girls and parents reporting approaches by some cultures as assumed racism from the harassment victims. Rather than dealing with very complex investigations, they lacked the labour to manage effectively. So basically using the excuse to remove reports from the accounting.
They were specifically worried about race riots.
Look at the London riots years ago, that was caused by going after a gang member and escalated by gangs.
The police forces in these areas were absolutely right to worry, it wasn't just about causing offence but the real threat of organised criminal members of a community mobilising that community against the police.