Don’t touch me’: Swedish police offer anti-sexual assault wristband

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Don’t touch me’: Swedish police offer anti-sexual assault wristband
Topic Started: Jul 3 2016, 11:14 AM (92 Views)
friendshipgal	Jul 3 2016, 11:14 AM Post #1
Guess everyone wants their own Trudashians Posts: 12,815 Group: Member Member #241 Joined: February 12, 2006	Good grief Charlie Brown... what's next.. Do they really believe wrist bands will stop sexual assault.. it won't if it's a mind set that women are there for the taking. https://www.rt.com/news/349142-sweden-wristband-sexual-assault/ Swedish police have revealed that they will offer young women wristbands with the slogan “POLICEAVSPÄRRAT #tafsainte” [Police cordon, don’t grope] in Swedish, to prevent sexual assaults. Read more © Stoyan NenovRefugees banned from Austrian pool after ‘foreigner’ sexually assaults teenage girl “By wearing these wristbands, young women will be able to make a stand. No one should have to accept sexual molestation. So do not grope. And if you are groped, report it to the police,” Police Chief Dan Eliasson said, according to the press release. He added that the main goal of the step is to “draw attention to the issue [of sexual assault], and urge those affected to report.” “We’re hoping mainly that this will get boys to think twice. A lot of them don’t seem to realize that this is a crime,” Eliasson told news agency TT.



FuzzyO	Jul 3 2016, 11:21 AM Post #2
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	They are not saying that they think wearing a wristband will stop sexual assaults. The campaign may go some way to counter the mindset "that women are there for the taking."



David	Jul 3 2016, 11:32 AM Post #3
Posts: 5,861 Group: Moderator Emeritus Member #12 Joined: June 30, 2005	Yeah the article it was mainly to raise awareness



haili	Jul 3 2016, 11:28 PM Post #4
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,083 Group: Member Member #387 Joined: September 15, 2006	I doubt if the gropers can read Swedish and most Swedes must already know that groping is a no no.



FuzzyO	Jul 4 2016, 12:27 AM Post #5
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: Last month, a Swedish police report said that the country has the worst rates of sexual violence against women in entire Europe, according to a survey carried out by the EU’s rights agency. “Sweden tops the new EU Statistics on physical and sexual violence against women, sexual harassment and stalking. The conclusion is that the results are a consequence of Nordic alcohol culture, but also of non-traditional gender roles,” the report said. In most of the crimes, men were unable to “handle the alcohol,” simply felt “horny,” having “ignorance of the consequences for the girls" or “misplaced feelings,”“expressing anger in this way” or acting due to “peer pressure.” Recent migrants are blamed for some of the crimes: migrant sex gangs were attacking girls from 12 to 17 years old over the past two summers at the Stockholm music festival. In a leaked police memo, security forces noted that “unaccompanied youth” from the Middle East were behind the crimes, Breitbart reported. More attacks were reported at Swedish music festivals Arvika in 2006 and 2010, Emmaboda in 2014 and Bråvalla in 2015, with police accused of covering up the assaults and not disclosing details on the 36 reports of sexual assault and two rape allegations filed after the festivals in 2014 and 2015, the Local reported.



Trotsky	Jul 4 2016, 01:20 AM Post #6
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I am fine being groped as long as after it is over I still have my wallet.



friendshipgal	Jul 5 2016, 05:27 AM Post #7
Guess everyone wants their own Trudashians Posts: 12,815 Group: Member Member #241 Joined: February 12, 2006	I don't think those wristbands are going to do much against the epidemic of assaults or stop the mass assaults including this one in Sweden. Not to mention they are still downplaying the issue http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/its-not-only-germany-that-covers-up-mass-sex-attacks-by-migrant-men-swedens-record-is-shameful/ http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/cologne-is-every-day-europes-rape-epidemic/news-story/e2e618e17ad4400b5ed65045e65e141d Authorities across the country have been accused of downplaying the true extent of the problem by suppressing information about migrant-related crimes, ostensibly due to a “lack of public interest”.



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