Police the UK have released a report highlighting a serious surge violence against women and girls. The report states that levels misogyny and criminal acts women are at record levels. More than one million such crimes have been reported one year. This may be just the tip the iceberg. There will be a substantial number of instances of violence that go unreported. London's Metropolitan Police wrote about the gravity this problem. It said: "Violence against women and girls is endemic, systemic, and a threat to society the same scale as terrorism." It added that crimes women constituted 20 per cent of all recorded crime. It said: "We must act to change the unacceptable reality women and girls."
The report was issued the UK's National Police Chiefs' Council and the College of Policing. Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth called the statistics "staggering". She said: "Violence women and girls is a national emergency. We need to move forward as a society to make change, and no longer accept violence against women and girls as inevitable." The police said: "One every 12 women will be a victim violence. One every six murders is a result of domestic abuse. One in 20 people - more than two million them - will be perpetrators violence against women and girls their lives." It said gender-based violent crimes included harassment, murder, online sexual abuse, rape, and stalking.
