A Rape Every Hour in London: Diversity is a Strength Remember! By Richard Miller (Europe)

In general, most rapes are not reported as the stress dealing with the police and the courts/lawyers is too great. It is thought that for the UK only one-in-six rapes get reported, so the number of actual rapes is six-times the recorded rate. For London, there is a rape reported every hour. In 2023, 8,800 rapes were reported to the Metropolitan Police, which averages 24 a day, and hence the one every hour figure.

All of this has been covered in various media postings, such as the extract from the BBC below. But search as one may, one will not find out anything about the ethnicity/race of the majority of rapists. To do so, some energy needs to be expended digging, and hypothesising. We know that thousands of British children were groomed and raped by migrant gangs, something which is still occurring according to some reports, and not being reflected in the rape statistics: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/23/the-uks-grooming-gangs-and-the-lessons-never-learned; https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1ddaih6/how_child_sex_grooming_gangs_still_cast_a_shadow/

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/what-do-we-know-about-the-ethnicity-of-sexual-abuse-gangs. It is most likely that as seen in the rest of Europe, such as Sweden, rape, especially of children is a crime dominated by diversity, although the Left media portray rape as primarily a White crime. That is the problem of mindless empiricism, mixed with Critical Race Theory ideology.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxr202eee0no

"A rape offence is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC.

More than 8,800 rape incidents were reported to the Metropolitan Police in 2023 - an average of 24 a day.

Charities have called the findings "horrifying" but say the true extent of sexual offending will be far higher.

The Met says it remains determined to tackle sexual violence, is "striving to do better" and that the number of rape charges has more than doubled since 2022.

The data - obtained via Freedom of Information requests to the Met and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) - also shows a further 11,000 reports of other sexual crimes were reported to the force last year, with almost a quarter of all reported crimes from people aged under 18.

The figures represent the number of reports issued from 2018 to 2023, but do not necessarily mean all the crimes happened within that time period.

For example, if someone reported historical sexual abuse in 2023, that would be filed as a 2023 report.

There were two offence datasets: one on reported rape only, and another comprising sexual assault, assault by penetration and attempted rape offences.

From 2018 to 2023, of all these crimes, total reported incidents increased by 14% to almost 20,000.

To put this into context, a report of sexual violence or rape was made to the Met on average every 26 and a half minutes.

London-based Rape Crisis centres, Solace and Nia have called the findings "horrifying" adding that it "clear urgent change is needed".

Amy has waived her right to anonymity.

She says she handed the police a phone with evidence and said the Met returned it after six months.

She said: "I found out that they didn't take any of the evidence off it so they called me again to ask for my phone back to get that evidence but my phone broke so effectively, from that moment on, I knew that the case was going to be dropped because literally all of the evidence was gone.

"That moment was a terrible moment in time and put me into absolute paralysis but it was the police that put me on suicide watch.

"Victims already feel that everything is the victim's fault but the police will definitely ensure that you feel that way."

Tirion Havard, professor of gender abuse and policy at London South Bank University, said the figures were "depressing" both because of the extent of the offending and also in that it was "depressing that I'm not surprised".

Prof Havard added the actual problem was far worse than the figures released by the Met indicate.

"It's the tip of the iceberg. This is almost best-case scenario."

Rape Crisis says only one in six women who are raped report the crime - that figure is one in five for male victims - while only one in four will report other types of sexual assault.

Additionally, data from the Office for National Statistics shows that in the year ending in March 2022 almost 800,000 females aged 16 and over reported that they were raped or sexually assaulted every year in the UK - that's about one in 30. This figure was 275,000 for male victims.

Nearly a quarter of all reported victims were 17 or younger. This makes it the second-largest age bracket, behind 18 to 29 years old.

According to the data, more than 4,300 children reported being a victim of rape or sexual assault to the Met in 2023, equating to a report of sexual abuse about every two hours.

Kellie Ann Fitzgerald, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) assistant director for London and the South East, said child sexual offences in London "remain close to record levels".

She also noted the true extent of offending was likely to be much higher.

Ms Fitzgerald believes "it is crucial that the new government overhauls the criminal justice system" to tackle crime backlogs and to fast-track cases involving children.

Charges for sexual crimes have risen significantly in recent years.

There were 818 charges in 2018, falling to 800 the following year but have steadily risen since then to 1,419 in 2023.

However these figures represent only a small fraction of complaints made.

While the data shows an increase in the number of people reporting such crimes, and an increase in charges, the charity Rape Crisis UK believes "urgent" change is needed.

"We want to see a robust criminal justice system that victims and survivors and the wider public can have faith in."

While the charity acknowledged commitments by the Met and CPS to tackle sexual violence, it said "we are yet to see this impact".

In response to the criticism, the Met told the BBC it was "determined to tackle sexual violence and our teams have transformed the way we investigate rape and sexual offences".