Thread by @Telegraph

"The depressing truth is the police simply don’t prioritise policing violence (sexual or otherwise) against women and girls"

✍️Writes @VeraBaird, the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales

telegraph.co.uk/women/life/epi…

"We’ve made huge strides in gender equality during recent decades. But until a woman is safe from sexual violence, her success in work or education hangs by a thread"

telegraph.co.uk/women/life/epi…

"Violence against women and girls is a cause of inequality as well as a result of it. That women are far more often in fear of violence and subject to abuse is the last great inequality that we must tackle."

⚫️"Safety is a right, not a privilege"

"The terrible fate of Sarah Everard will inevitably undermine women’s faith in policing further still. Winning back their confidence will be a long and steep climb for police."

"They need to start today"

"These criminal justice failings don’t exist in isolation. They reflect the enduring sexism and misogyny entrenched in our wider culture"

"Women are undervalued as people, professionals and figures of authority and too readily regarded as figures principally of sexual value"

"So, what must happen now? The police, of all institutions, need to lead by example."

"They need to police their own"

"If women’s voices alone could have stopped this violence, it would have ended long ago. We need more men now to mobilise themselves – and each other – to tackle this epidemic" | Writes @VeraBaird

telegraph.co.uk/women/life/epi…