Reports of sexual assaults on the London Underground have increased 42 percent since 2015, according to a new data analysis.
that numbers released by the UK’s PA news agency show that there were a total of 1,206 reported attacks on the tube from 2018 to 2019, as compared with a mere 844 reported attacks from 2015 to 2016. The uptick in reported attacks is, in some ways, a good thing—the British Transport Police, who patrol the Underground, had recently teamed up with transit authority Transport for London to spearhead a campaign to encourage more victims to report assaults on public transit, hence the increase.
“It’s not enough to just encourage the reporting of sexual harassment and assaults. Alongside this we need to be proactively identifying offenders and stopping them,” Andrea Simon, a spokesperson for the UK’s End Violence Against Women Coalition, told the. “CCTV shows that [assaulters] will move around the transport network looking for women to target, most often during the commuter rush hours when the tube network is busiest.
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