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by Bartkusa
3477 days ago
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>> call a shelter or the related police station and ask how many assaults they have had reported in the past year. • If assaults happened in shelters, why would the shelters ever tell you? • Why would anyone ever tell the police? I can't imagine the homeless victims would want the police MORE involved in their lives. • Even if someone told the police about an assault at a shelter, would they bother to investigate, or keep records? Police have incentives to reduce crime stats, which isn't the same as reducing crime. |
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They absolutely would[1] here (central/east Europe). Is it different in the US?
[1] I run a local news site and we get these kind of stories all the time. Not just press releases from state or municipal police, but messages from the people themselves.