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https://rapecrisis.org.uk/news/rape-gang-inquiry-report/ *Political failures and political framing* ------------------------------------------ The lack of leadership on this issue has left these most grave crimes to become a political football and has created space for reports like this one to be published. Successive governments and the institutions responsible for safeguarding girls - schools, GPs, social care, police and more - have all failed to deal with grooming gangs. We welcome the significant efforts of the police-led Operation Beaconport which is reviewing and reopening cases of this kind ( https://rapecrisis.org.uk/news/rcew-welcomes-police-decision-to-reinvestigate-closed-grooming-gangs-cases/ ) which were mistakenly closed, but we are clear that much more must still be done to prevent this form of systematic child rape. However, it is unhelpful and irresponsible to attribute sexual violence and abuse perpetration uniquely to specific races, ethnicities or religions. The solutions to tackling rape, sexual abuse and exploitation lie in joined-up efforts within and across the diverse array of communities and contexts who live in the UK. Framing the issue squarely in terms of immigration undermines joined-up, community-based responses to tackling misogyny and rape culture. Such framing also encourages people to believe that some are safe and others are dangerous, when in reality the fact and risks of sexual violence and abuse exist in all cultures, communities and contexts. *The need for better data* -------------------------- The police data on ethnicity and religion is poor, and not robust enough to be able to draw conclusions about who is more likely to do what to whom, and in what circumstances. What we do know, however, is that major public inquiries, inspections and data analysis have consistently found that perpetrators of group-based child sexual exploitation come from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds. A 2023 report by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services concluded that the majority of offenders in the cases they reviewed were white, data from the National Police Chief's Council showed that in cases where ethnicity had been known, 70% of grooming gang suspects in 2023, and 63% in the first nine months of 2024, were white. And the Home Office's 2020 review of group-based child sexual exploitation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support claims that any one ethnic group is disproportionately responsible at a national level. In stating that we need better data, we do not seek to minimise the experiences of those individuals who have suffered at the hands of Pakistani Muslim men. All sexual violence is unacceptable and reprehensible, no matter the circumstances, or who has perpetrated it. What the survivors were subjected to in these cases was deserve justice, and answers. https://rapecrisis.org.uk/news/rcew-welcomes-police-decision-to-reinvestigate-closed-grooming-gangs-cases/ https://rapecrisis.org.uk/news/ https://rapecrisis.org.uk/about-us/oral-herstory-project/ i found the link to this group about 3 seconds into a google search: "rape gang cukture in the uk", even misspelled, RCEW was the first response. are there better ones out there? Les On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 11:53 AM, John Reimann wrote: > > What is the answer, given that the anti-immigrant mood that motivated > Brexit has grown since then? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42157): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42157 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119887039/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
