Thread by @WeAreFairCop

Let’s remind ourselves of the Derbyshire policing threats, which I assume are pretty typical for most forces.

Odd isn’t it. ‘Someone was mean to me because they mistakenly thought I was disabled’ doesn’t make the Top Ten.

https://twitter.com/mpssutton/status/1379464593429381124

Let's have a look at some of the statistics for actual disabled people, rather than people who are mistakenly identified as disabled.
The unemployment rate for disabled people was 8.4% in the latest quarter, compared to 4.6% for those without disabilities.

42.6% of those with disabilities were economically inactive in the latest quarter, compared to 15.3% of those without disabilities.

In the year ending March 2019, around 1 in 7 (14.1%) disabled adults aged 16 to 59 years experienced any form of domestic abuse in the last year in England and Wales, compared with 1 in 20 (5.4%) non-disabled adults of the same age.

Disabled women were more than twice as likely to experience domestic abuse than non-disabled women, and almost twice as likely than disabled men.

I could go on but hopefully you get the point. Disabled people are more likely to be physically assaulted and less likely to have the economic power to escape. So why is police time and attention directed to people who were 'mistakenly' believed to be disabled?