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Violence against women and girls has reached epidemic levels and police are treating it as a threat on the same scale as terrorism, Britain's police chiefs said Tuesday. 

More than 1 million violent crimes against women and girls were recorded by U.K. police in 2022 to 2023, accounting for one-fifth of all recorded crime, a new report commissioned by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing said. 

One in every six murders was related to domestic abuse in the same period. At least one in every 12 women each year will be a victim of crimes including sexual offenses, rape, stalking, harassment or online sexual abuse, the report estimated, with the exact number thought to be much higher because of crimes that go unreported.

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[–] DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is just really pedantic tho,

It really fucking is, and you're clearly aware it is, and yet, here we are!

the most important part is that femicides get treated more seriously

So how about you do just that? You do realise that you are perfectly capable of just keeping this kind of unhelpful bullshit to yourself, right? Because I honestly doubt anyone gives a shit if a poster made by a charity already taking femicide more seriously "doesn't feel right" to you, a person clearly more concerned with the artificial construct that is grammer than with the content. The only thing your reply has contributed to the conversation is to derail it. Well done.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

No need to so hostile. I'm a woman myself and acutely aware of the sexist reporting when it comes to femicides. I'm also involved in protests and, as I stated, I think that something is being done to change the reporting is more important than the exact detail how. I also care about precise language, however, and I just offered a phrasing that I think keeps the same exact message, while being harder to misinterpret and frame wrongly by our enemies. We're not on opposite sides here.