Sexual offences: when women report them, what happens?
by Caelainn Barr, Anna Leach from on (#5Q8EK)
Crimes such as indecent exposure can lead to more serious offences. Are the police and justice systems taking them seriously enough?
The police's response to reports of sexual offences such as indecent exposure has come into sharp focus, following allegations that the Met failed to investigate an accusation of indecent exposure from 2015 that could have identified Wayne Couzens as a sexual threat to women - six years before the police officer murdered Sarah Everard.
The fallout further damages trust in the police to take sexual offences seriously - an effect that can be clearly seen in statistics.