Wanted to share something that happened to me… Long post, sorry!
I was getting dressed for work the other day and saw someone watching me from the footpath behind my house. I made eye contact with him stood there looking at him. Because of the angle/distance he just looked back at me - I think he was wondering if he had definitely been spotted. When it became clear that he had, he started pretending to look very intently at a crappy plant next to him. Then carried on down the footpath.
He then walked past our house so I took a load of photos of him and told him that I saw what kind of a man he was and I was going to report his perverted self to the police.
Filed a police report, thought they’d do nothing but then got a call back from an amazing detective superintendent who works for a unit catching “pervs and p*dos” (his words!). It was set up in the wake of Wayne cousins. The view being that if they catch men like this guy, they can stop things from escalating. he was really empathetic, and good at his job saying things like “as a woman - i thinj you just know when someone is being dodgy”
I felt he took it really seriously and was going to write about it on here, as I felt it was a bit of a positive step forward for the police.
But then today I had a call from some local copper who started banging on about how I should “consider some blinds” (it’s a window 20cm square and you can only see in if you literally stand at a very specific angle - plus barely anyone uses the footpath). And that the guy in question may have just been a normal guy who got tempted. I mean WTF. I pushed back massively and said I wouldn’t accept that and that he was there for at least 30 seconds looking in. Possibly (probably) longer. But I could tell he thought I’d imagined it, was being “silly” or that it was perfectly acceptable to stop and have a look. He even said “if I found myself in that situation, and had a little look in, got tempted, I’m not sure I’d want the police coming round”. Course you bloody wouldn’t!!
Anyway - not sure what the point of my post is really, other than I’m just disappointed that my (brief) fantasy that the police were changing was pretty short lived.