How interesting.
When I was Co-chair of the Mayor's VAWG Board, back in about 2014, we introduced a dashboard that showed monthly and annual totals of rapes, SSOs and DV reports to the Met police. It showed rising numbers, as you would expect.
— Joan Smith (@polblonde) July 26, 2023
Since October last year, the VAWG dashboard is no longer being updated. It's now much harder to find out what's happening to MVAWG figures in London.
How about fixing that, #maaate?@MayorofLondon
— Joan Smith (@polblonde) July 26, 2023
Why is Joan Smith no longer co-chair of the Mayor’s Violence Against Women and Girls Board?
Because the Mayor in question abruptly removed her from it, without a word of … Read the rest